For this reason, I am reminding you to fan into flames the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands.

Now, however, that grace has been revealed through the coming of our Savior the Messiah Jesus, who has destroyed death and through the gospel has brought life and release from death into full view.

And for which I undergo these things: but I have no feeling of shame. For I have knowledge of him in whom I have faith, and I am certain that he is able to keep that which I have given into his care till that day.

The teachings which you have heard from me, attested by many witnesses, deliver into the keeping of faithful men, who in their turn will be able to teach others also.

A fighting man, when he is with the army, keeps himself free from the business of this life so that he may be pleasing to him who has taken him into his army.

But avoid all irreverent babble and godless chatter [with its profane, empty words], for it will lead to further ungodliness,

in meekness correcting the adversaries; if peradventure God may grant unto them repentance into the perfect knowledge of the truth,

For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

always learning, and never able to come into the perfect knowledge of the truth.

and will turn their ears away from the truth and will wander off into myths and man-made fictions [and will accept the unacceptable].

For Demas hath left me, and hath loved this present world, and is departed into Thessalonica. Crescens is gone to Galatia, and Titus unto Dalmatia.

But I sent Tychicus into Ephesus.

The Lord will rescue me from every evil work and will bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever! Amen.