11. But you, man of God, avoid all these things. Strive for righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, and gentleness.
12. Run your best in the race of faith, and win eternal life for yourself; for it was to this life that God called you when you firmly professed your faith before many witnesses.
13. Before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who firmly professed his faith before Pontius Pilate, I command you
14. to obey your orders and keep them faithfully until the Day when our Lord Jesus Christ will appear.