2 Timothy
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| 1:1 Paul, an apostle, one sent of Christ Jesus through God’s desire, down to the finest details of the promise of life inside of Christ Jesus. 2 To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from Father God and from Christ Jesus our Lord. 3 I am thankful to God whom I serve, as my forefathers did, with a pure consciousness, as I have unceasingly brought you to my mind in my prayers night and day. 4 As I remember your tears, so I long to see you that I might be filled with joy. 5 I bring to mind your sincere faith, which dwelt first in your grandmother, Lois, and in your mother, Eunice, for I am persuaded that such faith is also inside of you. • 6 This is why I remind you to stir up the fire of the gift of God which is inside of you through the laying on of my hands. • 7 For God has not given us a spirit of reticence, but a Spirit of power, of love and of a sound mind. 8 You should not be ashamed, therefore, of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner; • rather, you suffer hardships together [with Christ and me] for the gospel, according to the power of God, 9 the One who has saved us, who has called and summoned us with a calling of devotion, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose [ intentions – pro-thesis] and grace. These things have already been given us inside of Christ Jesus separate from the unfolding ages of time. • 10 This gospel has become visible now as well through the wondrous appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has indeed abolished death, rendering it inoperable, and now has fully brought life and the inability to decay to light through the gospel. 11 Into this gospel, I was appointed as a herald and an apostle and a teacher of the ethnic families. 12 This is why I also suffer these things. • But I am not ashamed, for I know the One whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that He is able to keep, to guard, and to watch over my trust into that day. • 13 Possess the pattern of sound, reasonable, and pure words which you heard from me inside of faith and love inside of Christ Jesus. • 14 Keep that good trust through the Devoted Spirit, the One dwelling inside of us. 15 You know that all those in Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. 16 May the Lord give mercy to the household of Onesiphorus because he often refreshed me, and he was not ashamed of my chains. 17 Having arrived in Rome, then, he earnestly sought me out and found me. 18 May the Lord give him to find mercy alongside the Lord in that day! And you know how much he served well in Ephesus. |
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