Greeting

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

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

Encouragement to be Faithful

3I give thanks to God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did, how unceasingly I have remembrance of you in my prayers night and day,

4longing to see you, having recalled your tears, that I may be filled with joy,

5taking recollection of the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also.

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

7For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Not Ashamed of the Gospel

8Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but endure hardship with the gospel according to the power of God,

9who having saved us, and having 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 time itself,

10but has now been revealed through the appearance of our Savior Jesus Christ, having abolished death on the one hand, and having brought to life immortality through the gospel on the other,

11to which I was appointed a herald and apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

12For which cause I also suffer these things; but I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I have been persuaded that He is able to guard that which I have committed to Him until that Day.

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

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

15This you know, that all those in Asia have turned away from me, of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

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

17but when he arrived in Rome, he more diligently sought me out and found me.

18May the Lord grant to him to find mercy from the Lord in that Day—and you very well know how many ways he served in Ephesus.