1. Thou, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that [is] in Christ Jesus,
2. and 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;
3. thou, therefore, suffer evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ;
4. no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;