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¹ Paul an Apostle of Iesus Christe by the wyll of God, according to the promise of lyfe, which is in Christ Iesus,² To Timothie a beloued sonne: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the father, and Christe Iesus our Lorde.³ I thanke God whom I worshippe from [my] forefathers in pure conscience, that without ceassyng I haue remembrauce of thee in my prayers night & day⁴ Desiryng to see thee, myndefull of thy teares: that I may be fylled with ioy.⁵ When I call to remembraunce the vnfaigned fayth that is in thee, whiche dwelt first in thy graundmother Lois, and in thy mother Eunica: and I am assured that [it dwelleth] in thee also.

⁶ Wherfore I put thee in remebraunce that thou stirre vp the gyft of God, which is in thee by the puttyng on of my handes.⁷ For God hath not geuen to vs the spirite of feare: but of power, and of loue, and of a sounde mynde.⁸ Be not thou therfore ashamed of the testimonie of our Lorde, neither of me his prisoner: but suffer thou aduersitie with the Gospell, accordyng to the power of God,⁹ Who hath saued vs, & called vs with an holy callyng, not accordyng to our workes: but accordyng to his owne purpose and grace, which was geuen vs in Christe Iesus, before the world began:¹⁰ But is nowe made manifest by the appearyng of our sauiour Iesus Christ, who hath put away death, and hath brought life and immortalitie vnto light through the Gospell:¹¹ Wherunto I am appoynted, a preacher and Apostle, and a teacher of the gentiles:¹² For the which cause I also suffer these thynges. Neuerthelesse, I am not ashamed: For I knowe whom I haue beleued, and I am perswaded that he is able to kepe that which I haue committed to hym, agaynst that day.¹³ See thou haue the paterne of wholesome wordes, which thou hast hearde of me in fayth & loue, [that is] in Christe Iesus.¹⁴ That good thyng which was committed to thy keping, holde fast through the holy ghost which dwelleth in vs.

¹⁵ This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia, be turned from me: of who are Phygellus & Hermogenes.¹⁶ The Lorde geue mercie vnto ye house of Onesiphorus, for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chayne.¹⁷ But whe he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and founde [me].¹⁸ The Lorde graunt vnto hym, that he may fynde mercie with the Lorde in that day: And in howe many thynges he ministred vnto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.