1. Thou, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that [is] in Christ Jesus,
2. and 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;
3. thou, therefore, suffer evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ;
4. no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;
5. and if also any one may strive, he is not crowned, except he may strive lawfully;
6. the labouring husbandman it behoveth first of the fruits to partake;
7. be considering what things I say, for the Lord give to thee understanding in all things.
8. Remember Jesus Christ, raised out of the dead, of the seed of David, according to my good news,
9. in which I suffer evil--unto bonds, as an evil-doer, but the word of God hath not been bound;
10. because 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.
11. Stedfast [is] the word: For if we died together--we also shall live together;
12. if we do endure together--we shall also reign together; if we deny [him], he also shall deny us;
13. if we are not stedfast, he remaineth stedfast; to deny himself he is not able.
14. These things remind [them] of, testifying fully before the Lord--not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;