2 Timothy 2:1–13

¹Thou, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus, ²and the things that thou didst hear from me through many witnesses, these things be committing to stedfast men, who shall be sufficient also others to teach; ³thou, therefore, suffer evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ; ⁴no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please; ⁵and if also any one may strive, he is not crowned, except he may strive lawfully; ⁶the labouring husbandman it behoveth first of the fruits to partake; ⁷be considering what things I say, for the Lord give to thee understanding in all things.

⁸Remember Jesus Christ, raised out of the dead, of the seed of David, according to my good news, ⁹in which I suffer evil—unto bonds, as an evil-doer, but the word of God hath not been bound; ¹⁰because of this all things do I endure, because of the choice ones, that they also salvation may obtain that is in Christ Jesus, with glory age-during. ¹¹Stedfast is the word: For if we died together—we also shall live together; ¹²if we do endure together—we shall also reign together; if we deny him, he also shall deny us; ¹³if we are not stedfast, he remaineth stedfast; to deny himself he is not able.