12 I’m thankful for our master Yeshua the messiah for considering me faithful and strengthening me, and then appointing me to serve him 13 even though I used to be a slanderer and persecutor and abuser,[ref] but I was shown mercy because I did it in unbelief due to my ignorance. 14 The grace of our master so was generous in giving me faith in and love for Yeshua the messiah. 15 This saying is trustworthy and worth being accepted by everyone: Yeshua the messiah came into this world to save sinners, of which I was the worst. 16 And this is why I was shown mercy: so that Yeshua the messiah can demonstrate his great patience in me first as a pattern to all the others who will believe in him and obtain eternal life. 17 May the king of the ages, the indestructible, invisible, only God have all the honour and praise throughout all the ages. May it be so.

18 In line with previous prophecies, I’m entrusting you, young Timothy, with this: fight in this battle for good, 19 maintaining your faith and your clear conscience even though others have turned back and shipwrecked their faith, 20 including Hymenaeus and Alexander who I put Satan in charge of so that they’d be disciplined to stop slandering.