2 Timothy Chapter 1 / WOR

World English Bible
2 Timothy, Chapter 1

   1: Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
   2: to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
   3: I 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
   4: longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;
   5: having been reminded of the unfeigned faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.
   6: For 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.
   7: For God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and discipline.
   8: Don't be ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, his prisoner; but suffer hardship with the gospel according to the power of God,
   9: who 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,
   10: but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.
   11: For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
   12: For this cause I suffer also 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 that which I have committed to him against that day.
   13: Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
   14: That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit which dwells in us.
   15: This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.
   16: May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,
   17: but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me
   18: (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord's mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

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