The Bible

2 Timothy Chapter 1

¹Paul, an apostle of Jesus AnointedOne through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in AnointedOne Jesus, ²to Timothy, my dear child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and AnointedOne Jesus our Lord.

³I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day ⁴longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy; ⁵having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

⁶For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

⁷For God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and soundness-of-mind.

⁸So don't be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God, ⁹who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our actions, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in AnointedOne Jesus before times eternal, ¹⁰but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, AnointedOne Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

¹¹For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

¹²For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard what I have committed to him against that day.

¹³Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in AnointedOne Jesus.

¹⁴That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

¹⁵This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

¹⁶May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain, ¹⁷but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently and found me ¹⁸(the Lord grant to him to find ForeverOne's mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.