For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.

And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.

Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

Approved and Disapproved Workers

Remind them of these things, charging them before the Lord not to strive about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers.

But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them,

But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.