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[1]Paul, a legate of Jesus the Messiah by the pleasure of God, according to the promise of life which is in Jesus the Messiah;
[2]to Timothy a beloved son; grace, and mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus the Messiah.
[3]I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with a pure conscience, that I continually remember thee in my prayers, by night and by day:
[4]and I desire to see thee, and I call to mind thy tears; that I may be filled with joy,
[5]by the recollection which I have, by thy genuine faith, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and in thy mother Eunice, and also, I am persuaded, in thee.
[6]Wherefore I remind thee, that thou excite the gift of God, that is in thee by the imposition of my hands.
[7]For God hath not given us a spirit of fear, but of energy, and of love, and of instruction.
[8]Therefore be not thou ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure evils in connection with the Gospel, through the power of God;
[9]who hath vivified us, and called us with a holy calling; not according to our works, but according to his good pleasure, and his grace that was given us in Jesus the Messiah from time before the ages,
[10]and is now made known by the appearing of our Vivifier, Jesus the Messiah; who hath abolished death, and hath made manifest life and immortality, by the gospel:
[11]of which I am constituted a herald and a legate, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
[12]Therefore I suffer these things: and I am not ashamed; for I know in whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is competent to keep for me my deposit against that day.
[13]Let the form of sound words, which thou hast heard from me, abide with thee; with faith and love, in Jesus the Messiah.
[14]Keep thou the good deposit, by the Holy Spirit who dwelleth in us.
[15]This thou knowest, that all those in Asia have turned from me; and that among them are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
[16]May our Lord bestow mercy on the house of Onesiphorus; for, many times, he refreshed me, and was not ashamed of the chains of my imprisonment.
[17]But also, when he came to Rome, he sought for me with diligence, and found me.
[18]May our Lord grant him, that he may find mercy with our Lord, in that day. And how he ministered to me at Ephesus, thou very well knowest.
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