Paul's Second Letter to Timothy, Chapter 1
{1:1} Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God,
according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus, {1:2}
to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the
Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
{1:3} I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure
conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night
and day {1:4} longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may
be filled with joy; {1:5} having been reminded of the unfeigned faith
that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your
mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.
{1:6} For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift
of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. {1:7} For
God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and
self-control. {1:8} Therefore don't be ashamed of the testimony of our
Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News
according to the power of God, {1:9} who saved us and called us with a
holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own
purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times
eternal, {1:10} but has now been revealed by the appearing of our
Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and
immortality to light through the Good News. {1:11} For this, I was
appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
{1:12} For this cause I also suffer these things.
Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am
persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him
against that day.
{1:13} Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me,
in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. {1:14} That good thing
which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells
in us.
{1:15} This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me;
of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. {1:16} May the Lord grant mercy
to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not
ashamed of my chain, {1:17} but when he was in Rome, he sought me
diligently, and found me {1:18} (the Lord grant to him to find the
Lord's mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at
Ephesus, you know very well.
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