Thanksgiving and Charge to Timothy

1:3 I am thankful to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience as my ancestors did,3 when I remember you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day.4 1:4 As I remember your tears, I long to see you,5 so that I may be filled with joy. 1:5 I recall6 your sincere faith7 that was alive first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and I am sure8 is in you.

1:6 Because of this I remind you to rekindle God’s gift that you possess9 through the laying on of my hands. 1:7 For God did not give us a Spirit10 of fear but of power and love and self-control. 1:8 So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord11 or of me, a prisoner for his sake, but by12 God’s power accept your share of suffering13 for the gospel. 1:9 He is the one who saved us14 and called us with a holy calling, not based on15 our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began,16 1:10 but now made visible through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus. He17 has broken the power of death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel! 1:11 For this gospel18 I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher.19 1:12 Because of this, in fact, I suffer as I do.20 But I am not ashamed, because I know the one in whom my faith is set21 and I am convinced that he is able to protect what has been entrusted to me22 until that day.23 1:13 Hold to the standard24 of sound words that you heard from me and do so with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.25 1:14 Protect that good thing26 entrusted to you, through the Holy Spirit who lives within us.

1:15 You know that everyone in the province of Asia27 deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes. 1:16 May the Lord grant mercy to the family of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my imprisonment.28 1:17 But when he arrived in Rome,29 he eagerly searched for me and found me. 1:18 May the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that day!30 And you know very well all the ways he served me in Ephesus.31