2 Timothy Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus,

BLB⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus, ² To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. ³ I am thankful to God, whom I serve from my forefathers with a pure conscience, as I have the remembrance of you unceasingly in my prayers, night and day, ⁴ longing to see you, recalling your tears, so that I may be filled with joy, ⁵ having taken remembrance of the sincere faith within you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that it is in you also. ⁶ For this reason I remind you to kindle anew the gift of God, which is in you by the laying on of my hands. ⁷ For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and of love, and of self-control. ⁸ Therefore you should not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, His prisoner; but suffer together for the gospel, according to the power of God, ⁹ the One having saved us and having called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, having been given us in Christ Jesus before time eternal, ¹⁰ and now having been made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, having abolished death and having brought to light life and immortality through the gospel, ¹¹ to which I was appointed a herald, and an apostle, and a teacher. ¹² For this 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 entrusted for that day. ¹³ Retain the pattern of sound words, which you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. ¹⁴ Keep the good deposit entrusted to you by the Holy Spirit, the One dwelling in us. ¹⁵ You know this, that all those in Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. ¹⁶ May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he refreshed me often, and he was not ashamed of my chain. ¹⁷ But having arrived in Rome, he earnestly sought me out and found me. ¹⁸ May the Lord grant unto him to find mercy from the Lord in that day! And you know very well how much he served in Ephesus.