^{12 Ref} Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

^{13 Ref} I charge you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,

^{14 Ref} that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ;