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but being in Rome, very diligently he sought me, and found;

in which I suffer evil -- unto bonds, as an evil-doer, but the word of God hath not been bound;

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;

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:

and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

but they shall not advance any further, for their folly shall be manifest to all, as theirs also did become.

for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers -- itching in the hearing,

henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord -- the Righteous Judge -- shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.

in my first defence no one stood with me, but all forsook me, (may it not be reckoned to them!)

but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

all things, indeed, [are] pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast [is] nothing pure, but of them defiled [are] even the mind and the conscience;

not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things.

(not by works that [are] in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,

and apart from thy mind I willed to do nothing, that as of necessity thy good deed may not be, but of willingness,

no more as a servant, but above a servant -- a brother beloved, especially to me, and how much more to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord!

for, doubtless, of messengers it doth not lay hold, but of seed of Abraham it layeth hold,

but exhort ye one another every day, while the To-day is called, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of the sin,

for certain having heard did provoke, but not all who did come out of Egypt through Moses;

but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard,