2 Timothy 2

¹Thou therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

²And the things which thou hast heard from me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

³Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

⁴No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

⁵And if also a man contend in the games, he is not crowned, except he have contended lawfully.

⁶The husbandman that laboreth must be the first to partake of the fruits.

⁷Consider what I say; for the Lord shall give thee understanding in all things.

⁸Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the seed of David, according to my gospel:

⁹wherein I suffer hardship unto bonds, as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound.

¹⁰Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

¹¹Faithful is the saying: For if we died with him, we shall also live with him:

¹²if we endure, we shall also reign with him: if we shall deny him, he also will deny us:

¹³if we are faithless, he abideth faithful; for he cannot deny himself.

¹⁴Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.