| 1. | Thou, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that `is' in Christ Jesus, |
| 2. | 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. | thou, therefore, suffer evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ; |
| 4. | no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please; |
| 5. | and if also any one may strive, he is not crowned, except he may strive lawfully; |
| 6. | the labouring husbandman it behoveth first of the fruits to partake; |
| 7. | be considering what things I say, for the Lord give to thee understanding in all things. |
| 8. | Remember Jesus Christ, raised out of the dead, of the seed of David, according to my good news, |
| 9. | in which I suffer evil -- unto bonds, as an evil-doer, but the word of God hath not been bound; |
| 10. | 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. | Stedfast `is' the word: For if we died together -- we also shall live together; |
| 12. | if we do endure together -- we shall also reign together; if we deny `him', he also shall deny us; |
| 13. | if we are not stedfast, he remaineth stedfast; to deny himself he is not able. |
| 14. | 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. | be diligent to present thyself approved to God -- a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth; |
| 16. | and the profane vain talkings stand aloof from, for to more impiety they will advance, |
| 17. | and their word as a gangrene will have pasture, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus, |
| 18. | who concerning the truth did swerve, saying the rising again to have already been, and do overthrow the faith of some; |
| 19. | 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. | 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. | 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. | and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart; |
| 23. | and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife, |
| 24. | and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil, |
| 25. | in meekness instructing those opposing -- if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth, |
| 26. | and they may awake out of the devil's snare, having been caught by him at his will. |