56 lines
2.4 KiB
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56 lines
2.4 KiB
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## Guard the Treasure Entrusted to You
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###### 1
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Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus,
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To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, _and_ peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
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I am grateful to God, whom I serve with a clear conscience the way my forefathers did, as I unceasingly remember you in my prayers night and day,
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longing to see you, having remembered your tears, so that I may be filled with joy,
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being reminded of the unhypocritical faith within you, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced that _it is_ in you as well.
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For this reason I remind you to kindle afresh the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
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For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and self-discipline.
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Therefore do not be ashamed of either the witness about our Lord or me His prisoner, but join with _me_ in suffering for the gospel according to the power of God,
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who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus from all eternity,
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but now has been manifested by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,
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for which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher.
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For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.
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###### 13
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Hold to the standard of sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.
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###### 14
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Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to _you_.
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You are aware of this: that all who are in Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.
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The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains,
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but when he was in Rome, he eagerly searched for me and found me--
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the Lord grant to him to find mercy from the Lord on that day--and you know very well what services he rendered at Ephesus.
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