﻿2 Timothy.
Chapter 1.
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus, 
to Timothy, a beloved child: grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 
I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience as my forebears did, as I remember you without ceasing in my petitions night and day, 
longing to see you, remembering your tears, so that I may be filled with joy, 
having been reminded of the sincere faith in you, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced also dwells in you. 
For this reason I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is in you through the laying on of my hands. 
For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and love and self-control. 
Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord or of me, his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel according to the power of God, 
who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace, given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, 
but now revealed through the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, 
for which I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher. 
For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day. 
Hold to the pattern of sound words you heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. 
Guard the good deposit through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us. 
You know that all those in Asia turned away from me, among them Phygelus and Hermogenes. 
May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain, 
but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently and found me. 
May the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that day. And you know better how much service he rendered in Ephesus. 
