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¹ PAUL, a legate of Jesus the Messiah by the pleasure of God, according to the promise of life which is in Jesus the Messiah;² to Timothy a beloved son; grace, and mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus the Messiah.³ I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with a pure conscience, that I continually remember thee in my prayers, by night and by day:⁴ and I desire to see thee, and I call to mind thy tears; that I may be filled with joy,⁵ by the recollection which I have, by thy genuine faith, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and in thy mother Eunice, and also, I am persuaded, in thee.

⁶ Wherefore I remind thee, that thou excite the gift of God, that is in thee by the imposition of my hands.⁷ For God hath not given us a spirit of fear, but of energy, and of love, and of instruction.⁸ Therefore be not thou ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure evils in connection with the Gospel, through the power of God;⁹ who hath vivified us, and called us with a holy calling; not according to our works, but according to his good pleasure, and his grace that was given us in Jesus the Messiah from time before the ages,¹⁰ and is now made known by the appearing of our Vivifier, Jesus the Messiah; who hath abolished death, and hath made manifest life and immortality, by the gospel:¹¹ of which I am constituted a herald and a legate, and a teacher of the Gentiles.¹² Therefore I suffer these things: and I am not ashamed; for I know in whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is competent to keep for me my deposit against that day.¹³ Let the form of sound words, which thou hast heard from me, abide with thee; with faith and love, in Jesus the Messiah.¹⁴ Keep thou the good deposit, by the Holy Spirit who dwelleth in us.

¹⁵ This thou knowest, that all those in Asia have turned from me; and that among them are Phygellus and Hermogenes.¹⁶ May our Lord bestow mercy on the house of Onesiphorus; for, many times, he refreshed me, and was not ashamed of the chains of my imprisonment.¹⁷ But also, when he came to Rome, he sought for me with diligence, and found me.¹⁸ May our Lord grant him, that he may find mercy with our Lord, in that day. And how he ministered to me at Ephesus, thou very well knowest.