9In which I put up with the hardest conditions, even prison chains, like one who has done a crime; but the word of God is not in chains.
10But I undergo all things for the saints, so that they may have salvation in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
11This is a true saying: If we undergo death with him, then will we be living with him:
12If we go on to the end, then we will be ruling with him: if we say we have no knowledge of him, then he will say he has no knowledge of us:
13If we are without faith, still he keeps faith, for he will never be untrue to himself.
14Put these things before them, giving them orders in the name of the Lord to keep themselves from fighting about words, which is of no profit, only causing error in their hearers.
15Let it be your care to get the approval of God, as a workman who has no cause for shame, giving the true word in the right way.