Tuesday, June 28, 2016
2 Timothy 1 NLT ~ Introduction (1:1-4) ~ Paul's Concern for Timothy (1:5-14) ~ Paul's Situation (1:15-18)
2 Timothy 1 NLT
1 This letter is from Paul, chosen by
the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus. I have been sent out to tell
others about the life he has promised through faith in Christ Jesus.
2 I am writing to Timothy, my dear son.
May God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord give you grace, mercy, and peace.
3 Timothy, I thank God for you—the God
I serve with a clear conscience, just as my ancestors did. Night and day I
constantly remember you in my prayers.
4 I long to see you again, for I
remember your tears as we parted. And I will be filled with joy when we are
together again.
5 I remember your genuine faith, for
you share the faith that first filled your grandmother Lois and your mother,
Eunice. And I know that same faith continues strong in you.
6 This is why I remind you to fan into
flames the spiritual gift God gave you when I laid my hands on you.
7 For God has not given us a spirit of
fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.
8 So never be ashamed to tell others
about our Lord. And don’t be ashamed of me, either, even though I’m in prison
for him. With the strength God gives you, be ready to suffer with me for the
sake of the Good News.
9 For God saved us and called us to
live a holy life. He did this, not because we deserved it, but because that was
his plan from before the beginning of time—to show us his grace through Christ
Jesus.
10 And now he has made all of this plain
to us by the appearing of Christ Jesus, our Savior. He broke the power of death
and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the Good News.
11 And God chose me to be a preacher, an
apostle, and a teacher of this Good News.
12 That is why I am suffering here in
prison. But I am not ashamed of it, for I know the one in whom I trust, and I
am sure that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until the day of
his return.
13 Hold on to the pattern of wholesome
teaching you learned from me—a pattern shaped by the faith and love that you
have in Christ Jesus.
14 Through the power of the Holy Spirit
who lives within us, carefully guard the precious truth that has been entrusted
to you.
15 As you know, everyone from the
province of Asia has deserted me—even Phygelus and Hermogenes.
16 May the Lord show special kindness to
Onesiphorus and all his family because he often visited and encouraged me. He
was never ashamed of me because I was in chains.
17 When he came to Rome, he searched
everywhere until he found me.
18 May the Lord show
him special kindness on the day of Christ’s return. And you know very well how
helpful he was in Ephesus.
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