When you come, bring with you the cloak I left in Troas with Carpas and the scrolls, especially the parchments.

Alexander the coppersmith did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will repay him in keeping with his deeds.

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

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

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