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Thanksgiving
I thank God, whom I serve, as my ancestors did, with a clear conscience, as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers.
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Recalling your tears, I long to see you, so that I may be filled with joy.
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I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also.
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Appeal for Loyalty to Paul and the Gospel
For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
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That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.
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What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus.
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Guard the good deposit that was entrusted to you—guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.
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Examples of Disloyalty and Loyalty
You know that everyone in the province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.
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May the Lord grant that he will find mercy from the Lord on that day! You know very well in how many ways he helped me in Ephesus.
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The Appeal Renewed
You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
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And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others.
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Reflect on what I am saying, for the Lord will give you insight into all this.
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Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.
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Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
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Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels.
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A Final Charge to Timothy
You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance,
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persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
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But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it,
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and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
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In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge:
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But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.
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Personal Remarks
Do your best to come to me quickly,
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Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is helpful to me in my ministry.
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When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, and my scrolls, especially the parchments.
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You too should be on your guard against him, because he strongly opposed our message.
