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 before the world began,

That good thing which was committed unto you keep by the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chains:

But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me.

Remember that Jesus Christ, descended from David, was raised from the dead according to my gospel:

But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.

However the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.