For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline. -- 1:7

I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day. -- 1:12

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. -- 2:15

... always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. -- 3:7

Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. -- 3:12

All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.
-- 3:16-17

The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed, and will bring me safely to His heavenly kingdom; to
Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen. -- 4:18
 

For if we died with Him, we will also live with Him; if we endure, we will also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He also will deny us; if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself. -- 2:11-13

The Lord's bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged, with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth. 
-- 2:24-25

But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.  For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power. -- 3:1-5

I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom:  preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.  For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. -- 4:1-4

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing. -- 4:7-8