1 | 2 Timothy | ||
1 | Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus, | Salutation 2Tm.1.1-2 | |
2 | To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. | ||
3 | I thank God whom I serve with a clear conscience, as did my fathers, when I remember you constantly in my prayers. | Loyalty to the Gospel 2Tm.1.3-18 | |
4 | As I remember your tears, I long night and day to see you, that I may be filled with joy. | ||
5 | I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you. | ||
6 | Hence I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands; | ||
7 | for God did not give us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power and love and self-control. | ||
8 | Do not be ashamed then of testifying to our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel in the power of God, | ||
9 | who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not in virtue of our works but in virtue of his own purpose and the grace which he gave us in Christ Jesus ages ago, | ||
10 | and now has manifested through the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. | ||
11 | For this gospel I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher, | ||
12 | and therefore I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am sure that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me. | ||
13 | Follow the pattern of the sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus; | ||
14 | guard the truth that has been entrusted to you by the Holy Spirit who dwells within us. | ||
15 | You are aware that all who are in Asia turned away from me, and among them Phygelus and Hermogenes. | ||
16 | May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me; he was not ashamed of my chains, | ||
17 | but when he arrived in Rome he searched for me eagerly and found me - | ||
18 | may the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that Day - and you well know all the service he rendered at Ephesus. | ||
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