2 Timothy 4:13-14

4:13 When you come, bring with you the cloak I left in Troas with Carpas and the scrolls, especially the parchments. 4:14 Alexander the coppersmith did me a great deal of harm. ¹  The Lord will repay him in keeping with his deeds. ² 

2 Timothy 3:15

3:15 and how from infancy you have known the holy writings, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

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 4:17

4:17 But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message ⁶  would be fully proclaimed ⁷  for all the Gentiles to hear. And so I was delivered from the lion’s mouth!

¹ tn Grk “showed me much evil.”

² sn An allusion to Ps 28:4.

¹ 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.

² tn Or “according to,” or “by.”

³ tn Grk “before eternal times.”

¹ tn Or “the preaching.”

² tn Grk “might be completely fulfilled.”