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;