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1 Thou there­fore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Je­sus. 2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many wit­ness­es, the same com­mit thou to faith­ful men, who shall be able to teach oth­ers al­so. 3 Thou there­fore en­dure hard­ness, as a good sol­dier of Je­sus Christ. 4 No man that war­reth en­tan­gleth him­self with the af­fairs of this life; that he may please him who hath cho­sen him to be a sol­dier. 5 And if a man also strive for mas­ter­ies, yet is he not crowned, ex­cept he strive law­ful­ly. 6 The hus­band­man that laboureth must be first par­tak­er of the fruits. 7 Con­sid­er what I say; and the Lord give thee un­der­stand­ing in all things. 8 Re­mem­ber that Je­sus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead ac­cord­ing to my gospel: 9 Where­in I suf­fer trou­ble, as an evil do­er, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound. 10 There­fore I en­dure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also ob­tain the sal­va­tion which is in Christ Je­sus with eter­nal glo­ry. 11 It is a faith­ful say­ing: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: 12 If we suf­fer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us: 13 If we be­lieve not, yet he abideth faith­ful: he can­not deny him­self. 14 Of these things put them in re­mem­brance, charg­ing them be­fore the Lord that they strive not about words to no prof­it, but to the sub­vert­ing of the hear­ers. 15 Study to shew thy­self ap­proved unto God, a work­man that needeth not to be ashamed, right­ly di­vid­ing the word of truth. 16 But shun pro­fane and vain bab­blings: for they will in­crease unto more un­god­li­ness. 17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hy­menaeus and Phile­tus; 18 Who con­cern­ing the truth have erred, say­ing that the res­ur­rec­tion is past al­ready; and over­throw the faith of some. 19 Nev­er­the­less the foun­da­tion of God standeth sure, hav­ing this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let ev­ery one that nameth the name of Christ de­part from in­iq­ui­ty. 20 But 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 a man there­fore purge him­self from these, he shall be a ves­sel unto hon­our, sanc­ti­fied, and meet for the master's use, and pre­pared unto ev­ery good work. 22 Flee also youth­ful lusts: but fol­low righ­teous­ness, faith, char­i­ty, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. 23 But fool­ish and un­learned ques­tions avoid, know­ing that they do gen­der strifes. 24 And the ser­vant of the Lord must not strive; but be gen­tle unto all men, apt to teach, pa­tient, 25 In meek­ness in­struct­ing those that op­pose them­selves; if God per­ad­ven­ture will give them re­pen­tance to the ac­knowl­edg­ing of the truth; 26 And that they may re­cov­er them­selves out of the snare of the dev­il, who are tak­en cap­tive by him at his will.