12 and that is why I suffer(A) these things. But I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to guard what has been entrusted to me[a](B) until that day.(C)

Be Loyal to the Faith

13 Hold on to the pattern of sound teaching(D) that you have heard from me,(E) in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. 14 Guard the good deposit through the Holy Spirit who lives in us.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:12 Or guard what I have entrusted to him, or guard my deposit

12 That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame,(A) because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard(B) what I have entrusted to him until that day.(C)

13 What you heard from me,(D) keep(E) as the pattern(F) of sound teaching,(G) with faith and love in Christ Jesus.(H) 14 Guard(I) the good deposit that was entrusted to you—guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.(J)

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