2:1 Su oun, teknon mou, endunamou en te khariti te en Khristo Iesou,
2:2 kai a ekousas par' emou dia pollon marturon, tauta parathou pistois anthropois, oitines ikanoi esontai kai eterous didaxai.
2:3 rsugkakopatheson os kalos stratiotes [?]Khristou Iesou[?].
2:4 oudeis strateuomenos empleketai tais tou biou pragmateiais, ina to stratologesanti arese*
2:5 ean de kai athle tis, ou stephanoutai ean me nomimos athlese*
2:6 ton kopionta georgon dei proton ton karpon metalambanein.
2:7 noei ro lego* rdosei gar soi o kurios sunesin en pasin.
2:8 Mnemoneue Iesoun Khriston egegermenon ek nekron, ek spermatos Dauid, kata to euaggelion mou*
2:9 en o kakopatho mekhri desmon os kakourgos. alla o logos tou theou ou dedetai*
2:10 dia touto panta upomeno dia tous eklektous, ina kai autoi soterias tukhosin tes en Khristo Iesou meta doxes aioniou.
2:11 pistos o logos* ei gar sunapethanomen, kai suzesomen*
2:12 ei upomenomen, kai sumbasileusomen* ei rarnesometha, kakeinos arnesetai emas*
2:13 ei apistoumen, ekeinos pistos menei* rarnesasthai eauton ou dunatai.
2:14 Tauta upomimneske, diamarturomenos enopion tou rkuriou, me logomakhein, rep' ouden khresimon, epi katastrophe ton akouonton.
2:15 spoudason seauton dokimon parastesai to theo, ergaten anepaiskhunton, orthotomounta ton logon tes aletheias.
2:16 tas de bebelous kenophonias periIstaso* epi pleion gar prokopsousin asebeias,
2:17 kai o logos auton os gaggraina nomen exei* on estin Umenaios kai Philetos,
2:18 oitines peri ten aletheian estokhesan, rlegontes anastasin ede gegonenai, kai anatrepousin ten tinon pistin.
2:19 o mentoi stereos themelios tou theou esteken, ekhon ten sphragida tauten* Egno kurios tous ontas autou, kai* Aposteto apo adikias pas o onomazon to onoma kuriou.
2:20 En megale de oikia ouk estin monon skeue khrusa kai argura alla kai xulina kai ostrakina, kai a men eis timen a de eis atimian*
2:21 ean oun tis ekkathare eauton apo touton, estai skeuos eis timen, egiasmenon, reukhreston to despote, eis pan ergon agathon etoimasmenon.
2:22 tas de neoterikas epithumias pheuge, dioke de dikaiosunen, pistin, agapen, eirenen meta ton epikaloumenon ton kurion ek katharas kardias.
2:23 tas de moras kai apaideutous zeteseis paraitou, eidos oti gennosi makhas*
2:24 doulon de kuriou ou dei makhesthai, alla epion einai pros pantas, didaktikon, anexikakon,
2:25 en prauteti paideuonta tous antidiatithemenous, mepote rdoe autois o theos metanoian eis epignosin aletheias,
2:26 kai ananepsosin ek tes tou diabolou pagidos, ezogremenoi up' autou eis to ekeinou thelema.
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