who has 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 us in Christ Jesus be fore the times of the ages,

That good thing which was intrusted to you, keep by the Holy Spirit that dwells in us.

May the Lord give 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 for me very diligently, and found me.

Remember that Jesus Christ, of the posterity of David, was raised from the dead, according to my gospel;

But they shall proceed no further; for their madness shall be manifest to all, as was the madness of those men.

but the Lord stood by me, and gave me strength, that through me that which is preached might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.