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At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.

Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words.

Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:

The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments.

And Tychicus have I sent to Ephesus.

Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.

For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me:

Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.

But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

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

Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.

I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.

Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.

Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.

Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

These things command and teach.

For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.

This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.

For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

But refuse profane and old wives" fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.

If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.

For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.