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1:1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus, 1:2 To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 1:3 I thank God whom I serve with a clear conscience, as did my fathers, when I remember you constantly in my prayers. 1:4 As I remember your tears, I long night and day to see you, that I may be filled with joy. 1:5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lo'is and your mother Eunice and now,I am sure, dwells in you. 1:6 Hence I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands; 1:7 for God did not give us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power and love and self-control. 1:8 Do not be ashamed then of testifying to our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel in the power of God, 1:9 who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not in virtue of our works but in virtue of his own purpose and the grace which he gave us in Christ Jesus ages ago, 1:10 and now has manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. 1:11 For this gospel I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher, 1:12 and therefore I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am sure that he is able toguard until that Day what has been entrusted to me. 1:13 Follow the pattern of the sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus; 1:14 guard the truth that has been entrusted to you by the Holy Spirit who dwells within us. 1:15 You are aware that all who are in Asia turned away from me, and among them Phy'gelus and Hermog'enes. 1:16 May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiph'orus, for he often refreshed me;he was not ashamed of my chains, 1:17 but when he arrived in Rome he searched for me eagerly and found me -- 1:18 may the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that Day -- and you well know all the service he rendered at Ephesus.