to Timothy, a beloved child: grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Do you, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

now a servant of the Lord must not engage in strife, but should be gentle towards all, apt in teaching, patient of wrong,

in meekness correcting those opposing themselves, if peradventure God should give them repentance to a full knowledge of the truth,