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,