12. That's why I'm suffering the way I am. But I'm not ashamed. I know the One I have believed in. I am sure he is able to take care of what I have given him. I can trust him with it until the day he returns as judge.
13. Follow what you heard from me as the pattern of true teaching. Follow it with faith and love because you belong to Christ Jesus.
14. Guard the truth of the good news that you were trusted with. Guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.
15. You know that all the believers in Asia Minor have deserted me. They include Phygelus and Hermogenes.
16. May the Lord show mercy to all who live in the house of Onesiphorus. He often cheered me up. He was not ashamed that I was being held by chains.
17. In fact, it was just the opposite. When he was in Rome, he looked everywhere for me. At last he found me.