21Thou, 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.+
The Lord’s Approved Workman
14These things remind them of, testifying fully before the Lord--not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;+15be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;+16and the profane vain talkings stand aloof from, for to more impiety they will advance,+17and their word as a gangrene will have pasture, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus,+18who concerning the truth did swerve, saying the rising again to have already been, and do overthrow the faith of some;+19sure, nevertheless, hath the foundation of God stood, having this seal, `The Lord hath known those who are His,' and `Let him depart from unrighteousness--every one who is naming the name of Christ.'+20And in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth, and some to honour, and some to dishonour:+21if, then, any one may cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified and profitable to the master--to every good work having been prepared,+22and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;+23and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife,+24and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,+25in meekness instructing those opposing--if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth,+26and they may awake out of the devil's snare, having been caught by him at his will.+
Young's Literal Translation
Young's Literal Translation (1898). Public domain.
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