3. I am thankful to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day,
4. longing to see you as I remember your tears, so that I may be filled with joy,
5. remembering the sincere faith in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced that is in you also,
6. for which reason I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is in you through the laying on of my hands.
7. For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and love and self-discipline.
8. Therefore, do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor me his prisoner, but suffer along with me for the gospel, according to the power of God,