2 Timothy 4:10

4:10 For Demas deserted me, since he loved ¹  the present age, and he went to Thessalonica. ²  Crescens went to Galatia and Titus to Dalmatia.

2 Timothy 1:9

1:9 He is the one who saved us ³  and called us with a holy calling, not based on ⁴  our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began, ⁵ 

2 Timothy 2:16

2:16 But avoid profane chatter, ⁶  because those occupied with it will stray further and further into ungodliness, ⁷ 

¹ tn Grk “having loved.”

² map For location see JP1-C1; JP2-C1; JP3-C1; JP4-C1.

³ tn More literally, “who saved us,” as a description of God in v. 8. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

⁴ tn Or “according to,” or “by.”

⁵ tn Grk “before eternal times.”

⁵ sn Profane chatter was apparently a characteristic of the false teachers in Ephesus (cf. 1 Tim 1:3-4; 4:7; 6:20).

⁶ tn Grk “they [who engage in it] will progress even more in ungodliness.”