But I consider it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by a reminder,

And I will make an effort also, whenever necessary, to cause you to have a reminder of these things after my departure.

This already, beloved, [is] the second letter I write to you, in [both of] which I stir up your pure mind by a reminder,

Now I myself am confident concerning you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

And I write more boldly to you brothers, in part, as reminding you, because of the grace having been given to me by God,

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. For me to write the same things to you is not troublesome, but for you it is safe.

Instructing the brothers in these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have carefully followed.

For which cause I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

But remember the former days, in which after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle of sufferings,

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.

But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

I did not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on guard, lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being carried away by the error of the wicked;

Therefore the churches were strengthened in the faith, and were growing in number each day.

having been rooted and built up in Him and being established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

Do not be carried away with various and strange doctrines. For it is good [for] the heart to be established by grace, not by foods, by which those having walked were not profited.

But may the God of all grace, the [One] having called you into His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little [while], may He Himself make you complete--He will establish, strengthen, [and] firmly ground [you].

By Silvanus the faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting and testifying this to be [the] true grace of God in which you stand.