²¹ To make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, That thou mayest carry back words of truth to them that send thee?

³ it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus;

⁴ that thou mightest know the certainty concerning the things wherein thou wast instructed.

¹⁵ but sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord: `being' ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear:

³¹ but these are written, that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye may have life in his name.

¹³ These things have I written unto you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, `even' unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God.