^{1 Ref} Thou, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that `is' in Christ Jesus,

^{2 Ref} and the things that thou didst hear from me through many witnesses, these things be committing to stedfast men, who shall be sufficient also others to teach;

^{3 Ref} thou, therefore, suffer evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ;

^{4 Ref} no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;

^{5 Ref} and if also any one may strive, he is not crowned, except he may strive lawfully;

^{6 Ref} the labouring husbandman it behoveth first of the fruits to partake;

^{7 Ref} be considering what things I say, for the Lord give to thee understanding in all things.

^{8 Ref} Remember Jesus Christ, raised out of the dead, of the seed of David, according to my good news,

^{9 Ref} in which I suffer evil -- unto bonds, as an evil-doer, but the word of God hath not been bound;

^{10 Ref} because of this all things do I endure, because of the choice ones, that they also salvation may obtain that `is' in Christ Jesus, with glory age-during.

^{11 Ref} Stedfast `is' the word: For if we died together -- we also shall live together;

^{12 Ref} if we do endure together -- we shall also reign together; if we deny `him', he also shall deny us;

^{13 Ref} if we are not stedfast, he remaineth stedfast; to deny himself he is not able.

^{14 Ref} These things remind `them' of, testifying fully before the Lord -- not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;

^{15 Ref} be diligent to present thyself approved to God -- a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

^{16 Ref} and the profane vain talkings stand aloof from, for to more impiety they will advance,

^{17 Ref} and their word as a gangrene will have pasture, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus,

^{18 Ref} who concerning the truth did swerve, saying the rising again to have already been, and do overthrow the faith of some;

^{19 Ref} sure, nevertheless, hath the foundation of God stood, having this seal, `The Lord hath known those who are His,' and `Let him depart from unrighteousness -- every one who is naming the name of Christ.'

^{20 Ref} And in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth, and some to honour, and some to dishonour:

^{21 Ref} if, then, any one may cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified and profitable to the master -- to every good work having been prepared,

^{22 Ref} and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

^{23 Ref} and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife,

^{24 Ref} and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

^{25 Ref} in meekness instructing those opposing -- if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth,

^{26 Ref} and they may awake out of the devil's snare, having been caught by him at his will.