9wherein I suffer hardship unto bonds, as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound.
10Therefore I endure all things for the elect`s sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
11Faithful is the saying: For if we died with him, we shall also live with him:
12if we endure, we shall also reign with him: if we shall deny him, he also will deny us:
13if we are faithless, he abideth faithful; for he cannot deny himself.
14Of 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.
15Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.