and that is why I suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, because I know the One I have believed in and am persuaded that He is able to guard what has been entrusted to me until that day.

And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, commit to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

Consider what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.

unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,

along with the persecutions and sufferings that came to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from them all.

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed. You know those who taught you,