This saying is trustworthy: If we died with him, we will also live with him.

Think about what I am saying and the Lord will give you understanding of all this.

If we are unfaithful, he remains faithful, since he cannot deny himself.

But avoid profane chatter, because those occupied with it will stray further and further into ungodliness,

For I am already being poured out as an offering, and the time for me to depart is at hand.

You be on guard against him too, because he vehemently opposed our words.

For God did not give us a Spirit of fear but of power and love and self-control.

For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

For some of these insinuate themselves into households and captivate weak women who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions.

But they will not go much further, for their foolishness will be obvious to everyone, just like it was with Jannes and Jambres.

For there will be a time when people will not tolerate sound teaching. Instead, following their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves, because they have an insatiable curiosity to hear new things.

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

Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is a great help to me in ministry.

Because of this, in fact, I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, because I know the one in whom my faith is set and I am convinced that he is able to protect what has been entrusted to me until that day.