3. I am grateful to God, whom I worship with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, as I remember you constantly in my prayers, night and day.
4. I yearn to see you again, recalling your tears, so that I may be filled with joy,
5. as I recall your sincere faith that first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and that I am confident lives also in you.
6. For this reason, I remind you to stir into flame the gift of God that you have through the imposition of my hands.
7. For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather of power and love and self-control.
8. So do not be ashamed of your testimony to our Lord, nor of me, a prisoner for his sake; but bear your share of hardship for the gospel with the strength that comes from God.
9. He saved us and called us to a holy life, not according to our works but according to his own design and the grace bestowed on us in Christ Jesus before time began,