I thank God, whom I serve, receiving from my forefathers, with a pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of you in my prayers night and day;
I am truly a man who am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as you all are this day.
But this I confess to you, that according to the way which they call heresy, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conduct in the world, and more abundantly towards you.
When I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice; and I am persuaded in you also.