who saved us and called [us] with a holy calling, not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace that was given to us in Christ Jesus {before time began},

for which I was appointed a proclaimer and an apostle and a teacher,

May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he refreshed me many times, and was not ashamed of my imprisonment,

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

But they will not progress to a greater extent, for their folly will be quite evident to everyone, as also the [folly] of those [two] was.

Erastus remained in Corinth, but Trophimus I left behind in Miletus [because he] was sick.