001:012 That indeed is the reason why I suffer as I do.
But I am not ashamed, for I know in whom my trust reposes,
and I am confident that He has it in His power to keep what I
have entrusted to Him safe until that day.
001:013 Provide yourself with an outline of the sound teaching which you
have heard from my lips, and be true to the faith and love
which are in Christ Jesus.
001:014 That precious treasure which is in your charge, guard through
the Holy Spirit who has His home in our hearts.
001:015 Of this you are aware, that all the Christians in Roman Asia
have deserted me: and among them Phygelus and Hermogenes.
001:016 May the Lord show mercy to the household of Onesiphorus;
for many a time he cheered me and he was not ashamed of my chain.
001:017 Nay, when he was here in Rome, he took great pains to inquire
where I was living, and at last he found me.
001:018 (The Lord grant that he may obtain mercy at His hands on that day!)
And you yourself well know all the services which he rendered
me in Ephesus.
002:001 You then, my child, must be strong in the grace that is
in Christ Jesus.
002:002 All that you have been taught by me in the hearing of many witnesses,
you must hand on to trusty men who shall themselves, in turn,
be competent to instruct others also.
002:003 As a good soldier of Christ Jesus accept your share of suffering.
002:004 Every one who serves as a soldier keeps himself from becoming
entangled in the world's business--so that he may satisfy
the officer who enlisted him.
002:005 And if any one takes part in an athletic contest, he gets
no prize unless he obeys the rules.
002:006 The harvestman who labours in the field must be the first to get