That is why I suffer as I do. However, I am not ashamed, for I know the one in whom I have put my trust, and I'm convinced that he is able to protect what he has entrusted to me until the day that he comes.

What you have heard from me through many witnesses entrust to faithful people who will be able to teach others as well.

Think about what I am saying. The Lord will help you to understand all these things.

and what they say will spread everywhere like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are like that.

unfeeling, uncooperative, slanderous, degenerate, brutal, hateful of what is good,

and how I was persecuted and suffered in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and found to be true, because you know from whom you learned it.

Alexander the metalworker did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will pay him back for what he did.