^6 (A)Your speech must always be ^[a]with grace, as though seasoned with ^(B)salt, so that you will know how you should ^(C)respond to each person.

³ For though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage battle ^(A)according to the flesh, ⁴ for the ^(B)weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but ^[a]divinely powerful ^(C)for the destruction of fortresses. ⁵ We are destroying arguments and all ^(D)arrogance raised against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the ^(E)obedience of Christ, ⁶ and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever ^(F)your obedience is complete.

¹⁸ This ^(A)command I entrust to you, Timothy, ^(B)my ^[a]son, in accordance with the ^(C)prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you ^(D)fight the good fight, ¹⁹ keeping ^(E)faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and suffered shipwreck in regard to ^[b](F)their faith.

^12 (A)Fight the good fight of ^(B)faith; ^(C)take hold of the eternal life ^(D)to which you were called, and for which you made the good ^(E)confession in the presence of ^(F)many witnesses.

¹³ But according to His ^(A)promise we are looking for ^(B)new heavens and a new earth, ^(C)in which righteousness dwells.

^14 (D)Therefore, ^(E)beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be ^(F)found ^(G)spotless and blameless by Him, at peace, ¹⁵ and regard the ^(H)patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also ^(I)our beloved brother Paul, ^(J)according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, ¹⁶ as also in all his letters, speaking in them of ^(K)these things, ^(L)in which there are some things that are hard to understand, which the untaught and ^(M)unstable distort, as they do also ^(N)the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

^3 (A)Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our ^(B)common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you ^(C)contend earnestly for ^(D)the faith that was once for all time ^(E)handed down to ^(F)the ^[a]saints.