1 - Thou, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus,
2 - and the things that thou didst hear from me through many witnesses, these things be committing to stedfast men, who shall be sufficient also others to teach;
3 - thou, therefore, suffer evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ;
4 - no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;
5 - and if also any one may strive, he is not crowned, except he may strive lawfully;
6 - the labouring husbandman it behoveth first of the fruits to partake;
7 - be considering what things I say, for the Lord give to thee understanding in all things.
8 - Remember Jesus Christ, raised out of the dead, of the seed of David, according to my good news,
9 - in which I suffer evil--unto bonds, as an evil-doer, but the word of God hath not been bound;
10 - because of this all things do I endure, because of the choice ones, that they also salvation may obtain that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus, with glory age-during.
11 - Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: For if we died together--we also shall live together;
12 - if we do endure together--we shall also reign together; if we deny <FI>him<Fi> , he also shall deny us;
13 - if we are not stedfast, he remaineth stedfast; to deny himself he is not able.
14 - These things remind <FI>them<Fi> of, testifying fully before the Lord--not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;
15 - be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;
16 - and the profane vain talkings stand aloof from, for to more impiety they will advance,
17 - and their word as a gangrene will have pasture, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus,
18 - who concerning the truth did swerve, saying the rising again to have already been, and do overthrow the faith of some;
19 - sure, nevertheless, hath the foundation of God stood, having this seal, `The Lord hath known those who are His,' and `Let him depart from unrighteousness--every one who is naming the name of Christ.'
20 - And in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth, and some to honour, and some to dishonour:
21 - if, then, any one may cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified and profitable to the master--to every good work having been prepared,
22 - and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;
23 - and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife,
24 - and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,
25 - in meekness instructing those opposing--if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth,
26 - and they may awake out of the devil's snare, having been caught by him at his will.
