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¹ Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,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.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 Lo'is 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 Savior 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 Phy'gelus and Hermog'enes.¹⁶ May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiph'orus, 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.