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For God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and discipline.

For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

For this cause I suffer also these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

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

This saying is faithful: For if we died with him, we will also live with him.

But shun empty chatter, for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay. Some are for honor, and some for dishonor.

If a man therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master's use, prepared for every good work.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

For of these are those who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.

Every writing inspired by God is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction which is in righteousness,

that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;

For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.

From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me at that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for ministering.

of whom you also must beware; for he greatly opposed our words.