who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

For this, I was appointed as a proclaimer, an apostle, and a teacher.

That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me

But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.