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For I am suffering these things [See verse 8] for this reason [i.e., because of being a Gospel preacher]. Yet I am not ashamed because I know whom I have believed in [i.e., Jesus], and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him [i.e., Paul's spiritual well-being] until that day [i.e., the day of judgment].

Verse ConceptsCommitmentConvincingDay of the LORDAssuranceThe Final Days Of TimeAbrahamAssurance, By Faith In ChristConfidence, Based OnCertaintyBetrayalGuardiansOptimismPersecution, Attitudes ToPersuasionSecurityTrust, Importance OfTrustworthinessWatchfulness, DivineTrustworthyAbility, God's PowerBetrayal, God Never WillTrusting In GodThose Who Believed In ChristSufferingFaith And TrustGrandmothers

You know this, that all those who are in Asia have turned away from me; all those, I say, of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

Verse ConceptsBacksliding, Christian ExamplesForsaking God, Illustrated ByUnfaithfulness, To PeopleProvincesPeople Abandoning Peopleapostasy

The Lord grant mercy to the family of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and showed me kindness [comforting and reviving me like fresh air] and he was not ashamed of my chains [for Christ’s sake];

Verse ConceptsChainsIntimacyFriendship, Examples OfIron ChainsBe Merciful!People Refreshedempathy

(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord's mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

Verse ConceptsMercy, Of Jesus ChristGod Will Show MercyPurgatoryministering

And if a person competes as an athlete, he is not awarded the victor's crown unless he competes according to the rules.

Verse ConceptsAthletesCrowns, Spiritual UseLeisure, And PastimesPrizesKeeping Man's WordSportsCompetitionRacefootballstrivingcrownscheatersgames

Bring all this to men's remembrances, solemnly charging them in the presence of God not to waste time in wrangling about mere words, a course which is altogether unprofitable and tends only to the ruin of the hearers.

Verse ConceptsFutilityDiscorddisagreementsInfluenceUseless ThingsArguingQuarrelsDestruction Of The WickedReminders Of The GospelUseless WordsAvoid QuarrelsUseless Words And ThinkingErrorPositive Thinkingdistractionsremembrancestrivingdoctrine

They are the kind of men who make their way into people's houses and make captives of poor, weak women, loaded down with their sins and under the control of all sorts of impulses,

Verse ConceptsLicentiousnessCharacter Of WickedCaptivesHeavy BurdensWeak WomenProblem Peoplevulnerabilityimpulsivenessworms

But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfManifesting (making Something Clear)Foolishness Of MenAspects Of People Made Knowncancer

persecutions and sufferings. You know what kind of things happened to me at Antioch, Iconium and Lystra [See Acts 13:13-14:23], and what [severe] persecutions I experienced [there]. But the Lord rescued me from all of them.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Through Jesus ChristAfflictions, In Christian LivingDeliverance, Types OfRescuePersecution Of The Apostle PaulPersecution

For the time will come when people will not tolerate healthy doctrine, but with itching ears will surround themselves with teachers who cater to their people's own desires.

Verse ConceptsFalse TeachingsFalse Teachers, Characteristics OfEarsGuidance, Need For God'sManipulationTeachingCultsApostasy, CauseEvil TimesRefusing To HearSound DoctrineDoctrines of the The Gospelphotographydoctrine

For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure [from this world] is at hand and I will soon go free.

Verse ConceptsMurderSacrifice, Nt Fulfilment OfTypesSetting OutDeath Of God's PeopleMaking Cereal Offerings And Libations

The cloak which I left behind me in Troas at Carpus's, bring when thou comest, and the books, especially the parchments.

Verse ConceptsCloaksClothing, Need OfBooksLeisure, And PastimesPaul, Life OfDressOuter GarmentsSimplicityPapyrus

Erastus was stopping at Corinth; but Trophimus, when I last saw him was at Miletus, ill.

Verse ConceptsdiseasesHealingSuffering, Causes OfSuffering, Nature OfSick Individuals

Make an effort to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, and so do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brethren.

Verse ConceptsWinterBrotherhoodeffort

The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.

Verse ConceptsGod Be With YouGod's Grace