11. persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.
12. Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
13. But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
14. But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.
15. From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.
16. Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
17. that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.