a share of the crop.
002:007 Mark well what I am saying: the Lord will give you
discernment in everything.
002:008 Never forget that Jesus Christ has risen from among the dead
and is a descendant of David, as is declared in the Good News
which I preach.
002:009 For preaching the Good News I suffer, and am even put in chains,
as if I were a criminal: yet the word of God is not imprisoned.
002:010 For this reason I endure all things for the sake of God's own people;
so that they also may obtain salvation--even the salvation
which is in Christ Jesus--and with it eternal glory.
002:011 Faithful is the saying: "If we died with Him, we shall
also live with Him;
002:012 "If we patiently endure pain, we shall also share His Kingship; "If we
disown Him, He will also disown us;
002:013 "And even if *our* faith fails, He remains true--He cannot
prove false to Himself."
002:014 Bring all this to men's remembrances, solemnly charging
them in the presence of God not to waste time in wrangling
about mere words, a course which is altogether unprofitable
and tends only to the ruin of the hearers.
002:015 Earnestly seek to commend yourself to God as a servant who,
because of his straightforward dealing with the word of truth,
has no reason to feel any shame.
002:016 But from irreligious and frivolous talk hold aloof, for those
who indulge in it will proceed from bad to worse in impiety,
002:017 and their teaching will spread like a running sore.
Hymenaeus and Philetus are men of that stamp.
002:018 In the matter of the truth they have gone astray, saying that
the Resurrection is already past, and so they are overthrowing