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;
15. be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;
16. and the profane vain talkings stand aloof from, for to more impiety they will advance,
17. and their word as a gangrene will have pasture, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus,
18. who concerning the truth did swerve, saying the rising again to have already been, and do overthrow the faith of some;
19. sure, 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.'
20. And 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:
21. if, 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,