11. Of this Gospel, I have been appointed a preacher, and an Apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
12. For this reason, I also suffer these things. But I am not confounded. For I know in whom I have believed, and I am certain that he has the power to preserve what was entrusted to me, unto that day.
13. Hold to the kind of sound words that you have heard from me in the faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
14. Guard the good entrusted to you through the Holy Spirit, who lives within us.
15. Know this: that all those who are in Asia have turned away from me, among whom are Phigellus and Hermogenes.
16. May the Lord have mercy on the house of Onesiphorus, because he has often refreshed me, and he has not been ashamed of my chains.
17. Instead, when he had arrived in Rome, he anxiously sought me and found me.
18. May the Lord grant to him to obtain mercy from the Lord in that day. And you know well in how many ways he has ministered to me at Ephesus.