2 Timothy 2

¹Thou therefore, my sonne, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Iesus.

²And what things thou hast heard of me, by many witnesses, ye same deliuer to faithfull men, which shalbe able to teache other also.

³Thou therefore suffer affliction as a good souldier of Iesus Christ.

⁴No man that warreth, entangleth himselfe with the affaires of this life, because he woulde please him that hath chosen him to be a souldier.

⁵And if any man also striue for a Masterie, he is not crowned, except he striue as he ought to doe.

⁶The husbandman must labour before he receiue the fruites.

⁷Consider what I say: and the Lord giue thee vnderstanding in all things:

⁸Remember that Iesus Christ, made of the seede of Dauid, was raysed againe from the dead according to my Gospel,

⁹Wherein I suffer trouble as an euill doer, euen vnto bondes: but the worde of God is not bounde.

¹⁰Therefore I suffer all things, for the elects sake, that they might also obtaine the saluation which is in Christ Iesus, with eternall glorie.

¹¹It is a true saying, For if we be dead together with him, we also shall liue together with him.

¹²If we suffer, we shall also reigne together with him: if we denie him, he also will denie vs.

¹³If we beleeue not, yet abideth he faithfull: he cannot denie himselfe.

Of these things put them in remembrance, and protest before the Lord, that they striue not about wordes, which is to no profit, but to the peruerting of the hearers.