2 Timothy 1

¹Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, according to the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus,

²To Timothy, beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

³I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with a pure conscience, as unceasingly I have remembrance concerning you in my prayers night and day,

⁴longing to see you, remembering your tears, so that I may be filled with joy.

⁵having received a reminder of the sincere faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that it is in you also.

⁶For which reason I remind you to rekindle the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands;

⁷For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and love and self-discipline.

⁸Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel according to the power of God;

⁹who 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,

¹⁰and now made manifest through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished indeed death, but brought to light life and immortality through the gospel;

¹¹for which I myself was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher of the Gentiles;

¹²For which reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard my deposit until that day.

¹³Hold to the pattern of sound words that you heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus;

¹⁴Guard the good deposit through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

¹⁵You know this, that all those in Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

¹⁶May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain,

¹⁷but when he arrived in Rome, he eagerly sought me out and found me;

¹⁸May the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that day. And how much he served in Ephesus, you know very well.