[2 Timothy 1]

 

            {Paul’s second imprisonment. Autumn 65 AD. Rome. Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy was written.}}

 

             ^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. ^1:2 To Timothy, my beloved child: grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

             ^1:3 I have gratitude to God, to whom I am giving-divine-service from my ancestors in a clean conscience, as I have constant remembrance concerning you in my supplications, night and day. ^1:4 I am longing to see you, and I have been reminded of your tears, in-order-that I may be filled from your joy, ^1:5 receiving a reminder of the non-pretended faith, the one in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I also have confidence that it is in you. ^1:6 Because of which case, I am reminding you to rekindle the gift^* of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. ^1:7 For^* God did not give to us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and love^* and self-discipline. ^1:8 Therefore, do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor me, his prisoner, but suffer-hardship together-with the good-news according-to the power of God, ^1:9 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 everlasting. ^1:10 But now it was manifested through the appearing of our Savior, Jesus Christ, who indeed did-away-with death and illuminated both life and incorruption through the good-news, ^1:11 to which I was appointed^* a preacher and an apostle and a teacher of the Gentiles. ^1:12 Because of which case, I also am suffering these things too, but I am not ashamed, for^* I know the one whom I have believed and I have confidence that he is able to guard my deposit consigned to him ^*for that day. ^1:13 Hold to the pattern of sound^* words which you heard from me, in faith and love^* in Christ Jesus. ^1:14 Guard the good deposit consigned to you through the Holy Spirit the one dwelling in us.

 

             ^1:15 You know this, that all the ones in Asia turned themselves away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. ^1:16 May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain, ^1:17 but, when he came^* to Rome, he diligently sought me and found me ^1:18 (may the Lord give to him to find mercy from the Lord in that day), and how-much he served me in Ephesus, you know this quite-well.