That good thing which was committed to you, guard by the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you learned them,

She is a tree of life to all that lay hold of her, and she is a secure help to all that stay themselves on her, as on the Lord.

[My] son, let [them] not pass from [you], but keep my counsel and understanding:

who spoke and instructed me, [saying], Let our speech be fixed in your heart, keep our commandments, forget them not:

And forsake it not, and it shall cleave to you: love it, and it shall keep you.

Secure it, and it shall exalt you: honor it, that it may embrace you;

[This translation omits this verse.]

Only conduct yourselves worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the gospel,

But test all things; hold fast that which is good.

holding fast to the faithful word as he was taught, that he may be able to exhort by sound doctrine, and to convince those who oppose it.

but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the boast of hope firm until [the] end.

Therefore having a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast the confession.

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you about our common salvation, it became necessary to write to you exhorting you to earnestly contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

Only hold fast what you have till I come.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you like a thief, and by no means shall you know what hour I will come upon you.

I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no man may take your crown.

Counsel and safety are mine; prudence is mine, and strength is mine.

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

But thanks be to God, that though you used to be slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from [your] heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.

for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is opposed to sound doctrine,

If anyone teaches differently and does not consent to sound words, even those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness,

But you speak the things which suit sound doctrine.

sound speech that cannot be condemned, in order that the [one] who is an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing bad to say about us.

And the things which you have heard from me through many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be competent to teach others also.

The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, practice these things; and the God of peace shall be with you.

when we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love which is towards all the saints;

and the grace of our Lord superabounded with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.