that the person dedicated to God may be capable and equipped for every good work.

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

May the Lord grant mercy to the family of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my imprisonment.

But keep away from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and peace, in company with others who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

And just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these people – who have warped minds and are disqualified in the faith – also oppose the truth.

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.

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

Greetings to Prisca and Aquila and the family of Onesiphorus.

You know that everyone in the province of Asia deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

for which I suffer hardship to the point of imprisonment as a criminal, but God’s message is not imprisoned!

Remind people of these things and solemnly charge them before the Lord not to wrangle over words. This is of no benefit; it just brings ruin on those who listen.

They have strayed from the truth by saying that the resurrection has already occurred, and they are undermining some people’s faith.

correcting opponents with gentleness. Perhaps God will grant them repentance and then knowledge of the truth

I am thankful to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I remember you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day.

I recall your sincere faith that was alive first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and I am sure is in you.

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,

as well as the persecutions and sufferings that happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, and in Lystra. I endured these persecutions and the Lord delivered me from them all.

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!

May the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that day! And you know very well all the ways he served me in Ephesus.

So I endure all things for the sake of those chosen by God, that they too may obtain salvation in Christ Jesus and its eternal glory.