21Thou 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.+
The Lord’s Approved Workman
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.+15Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.+16But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness,+17and their word will eat as doth a gangrene: of whom is Hymenæus and Philetus;+18men who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already, and overthrow the faith of some.+19Howbeit the firm foundation of God standeth, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his: and, Let every one that nameth the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.+20Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some unto honor, and some unto dishonor.+21If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, meet for the master’s use, prepared unto every good work.+22But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.+23But foolish and ignorant questionings refuse, knowing that they gender strifes.+24And the Lord’s servant must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing,+25in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth,+26and they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him unto his will.+
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