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- Paul, an apostle of Christ
Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life that is in Christ
Jesus,
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- To Timothy, my dear son:
Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
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- I thank God, whom I serve, as
my forefathers did, with a clear conscience, as night and day I constantly
remember you in my prayers.
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- Recalling your tears, I long
to see you, so that I may be filled with joy.
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- I have been reminded of your
sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother
Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also.
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- For this reason I remind you
to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of
my hands.
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- For God did not give us a
spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.
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- So do not be ashamed to
testify about our Lord, or ashamed of me his prisoner. But join with me in
suffering for the gospel, by the power of God,
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- who has saved us and called us
to a holy life--not because of anything we have done but because of his own
purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the
beginning of time,
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- but it has now been revealed
through the appearing of our Saviour, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death
and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.
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- And of this gospel I was
appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher.
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- That is why I am suffering as
I am. Yet I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed, and am
convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him for that
day.
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- What you heard from me, keep
as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus.
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- Guard the good deposit that
was entrusted to you--guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in
us.
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- You know that everyone in the
province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.
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- May the Lord show mercy to the
household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed
of my chains.
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- On the contrary, when he was
in Rome, he searched hard for me until he found me.
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- May the Lord grant that he
will find mercy from the Lord on that day! You know very well in how many
ways he helped me in Ephesus.
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