| Chapter 1 |
1 | Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through 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 as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day |
4 | longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy; |
5 | having been reminded of the unfeigned faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also. |
6 | For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. |
7 | For God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and discipline. |
8 | Don't be ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, his prisoner; but suffer hardship with the gospel according to the power of God, |
9 | who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal, |
10 | but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. |
11 | For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. |
12 | For this cause I suffer also these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day. |
13 | Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. |
14 | That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit which dwells in us. |
15 | This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. |
16 | May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain, |
17 | but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me |
18 | (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord's mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well. |