[an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus, |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2To Timothy, my beloved son: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience the way my forefathers did, as I constantly remember you in my prayers night and day, |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4longing to see you, even as I recall your tears, so that I may be filled with joy. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For I am mindful of the sincere faith within you, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am sure that it is in you as well. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For this reason I remind you to kindle afresh the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord or of me His prisoner, but join with me in suffering for the gospel according to the power of God, |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity, |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10but now has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11for which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Retain the standard of sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15You are aware of the fact that all who are in Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains; |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17but when he was in Rome, he eagerly searched for me and found me-- |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18the Lord grant to him to find mercy from the Lord on that day-- and you know very well what services he rendered at Ephesus. |
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