2 Timothy 2

¹Thou, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that [is] in Christ Jesus,

²and the things that thou didst hear from me through many witnesses, these things be committing to stedfast men, who shall be sufficient also others to teach;

³thou, therefore, suffer evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ;

⁴no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;

⁵and if also any one may strive, he is not crowned, except he may strive lawfully;

⁶the labouring husbandman it behoveth first of the fruits to partake;

⁷be considering what things I say, for the Lord give to thee understanding in all things.

⁸Remember Jesus Christ, raised out of the dead, of the seed of David, according to my good news,

⁹in which I suffer evil — unto bonds, as an evil-doer, but the word of God hath not been bound;

¹⁰because 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.

¹¹Stedfast [is] the word: For if we died together — we also shall live together;

¹²if we do endure together — we shall also reign together; if we deny [him], he also shall deny us;

¹³if we are not stedfast, he remaineth stedfast; to deny himself he is not able.

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;