2Timothy:1

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* Paul , an apostle of Christ Jesus , by the will of God , sent forth to proclaim the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus . * To Timothy , my beloved child ; Grace mercy , and peace to you from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord . * I give thanks to God whom I worship with a pure conscience as my fathers did , when I remember you unceasingly in my prayers . * Night and day when I recall your tears I am longing to see you , that my happiness may be complete . * I have been reminded of that sincere faith which is in your heart ; which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice , and , I am fully persuaded , dwells in you also . * For this reason let me remind you to keep ever blazing that gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands . * For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice , but a spirit of power and of love and of self-control . * Do not then be ashamed to bear witness for our Lord , nor for me , his prisoner . Nay , join with me in suffering for the gospel by the power of God . * He has saved us and called us with a holy calling , not dealing with us according to our works ,but according to his purpose and grace which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time . * This has now been made manifest through the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus , who has put an end to death , and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel . * Of the gospel I was appointed a herald , apostle , and teacher ; and that is the reason I am now undergoing these sufferings . * But I am not ashamed ; for I know whom I have fully believed , and I am thoroughly persuaded that he is able to keep what I have given him until the Day . * Hold fast the pattern of sound teaching you have heard from me in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus . * Guard the glorious trust which has been committed to you by the aid of the Holy Spirit who makes his home in us . * You already know that all the Christians in Roman Asia forsook me , among them Phygellus and Hermogenes . * The Lord show mercy to the house hold of Onesiphorus ; for many a time he refreshed me , and was not ashamed of my chain . * But when he came to Rome he sought for me until he found me . * The Lord grant him to find mercy form the Lord in that Day ! And you know better than I how many services he rendered in Ephesus .

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