2 Timothy 1
1:1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, according to promise of life of the one in Christ Jesus.
1:2To Timothy my beloved son, favor, mercy, peace from God the father, and Christ Jesus our Lord.
1:3Gratitude I have to God, in whom I serve from my precursors, with a clean conscience, how continually I have the memory concerning you in my supplications night and day;
1:4longing to see you, remembering your tears, that with joy I should be filled;
1:5taking recollection of the unpretentious belief in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois, and in your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that also is in you.
1:6For which reason I remind you to rekindle the favor of God, which is in you by the laying on of my hands.
1:7For God did not give to us a spirit of dread, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
1:8Therefore you should not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor me his prisoner; but suffer evil along with the good news according to the power of God!
1:9of the one preserving us, and having called with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own intention and favor, the one having been given to us in Christ Jesus before times everlasting;
1:10and made manifest now through the grandeur of our deliverer Jesus Christ, the one clearing away indeed death, and having enlightened life and incorruptibility through the good news;
1:11in which I was appointed herald, and apostle, and teacher of nations.
1:12For which reason also these things I suffer; but I am not ashamed, for I know in whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep my deposit in his care for that day.
1:13Have a pattern of healthy words! which you heard by me in belief and love, in the one in Christ Jesus.
1:14Guard the good trust through holy spirit, of the one dwelling in us!
1:15Know this, that they turned away from me-- all the ones in Asia, of whom is Phygellus and Hermogenes.
1:16May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for often he refreshed me, and he was not ashamed of my chain;
1:17but being in Rome, more diligently he sought me, and found me.
1:18May the Lord grant to him to find mercy from the Lord in that day, and for as much as in Ephesus he served-- better you know it.