1. “Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers. He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.”

2 “For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”

3 “I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown. See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.”

4 “Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”