2. to Timothy, my dear child. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord!
3. I am thankful to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I remember you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day.
4. As I remember your tears, I long to see you, so that I may be filled with joy.
5. I recall your sincere faith that was alive first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and I am sure is in you.
6. Because of this I remind you to rekindle God’s gift that you possess through the laying on of my hands.
7. For God did not give us a Spirit of fear but of power and love and self-control.
8. So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me, a prisoner for his sake, but by God’s power accept your share of suffering for the gospel.
9. He is the one who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not based on our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began,