9. wherein I suffer hardship unto bonds, as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound.
10. 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.
11. Faithful is the saying: For if we died with him, we shall also live with him:
12. if we endure, we shall also reign with him: if we shall deny him, he also will deny us:
13. if we are faithless, he abideth faithful; for he cannot deny himself.
14. Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.
15. Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.
16. But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness,
17. and their word will eat as doth a gangrene: of whom is Hymenaeus an Philetus;
18. men who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already, and overthrow the faith of some.