and day,
[1:4]desiring to see you, remembering your tears, that I might be
filled with joy, [1:5]having a remembrance of the unfeigned faith in
you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother
Eunice, and I am persuaded that [it dwells] also in you. [1:6]For which
cause I admonish you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through
the imposition of my hands. [1:7]For God gave us not a spirit of fear,
but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

3 [1:8]Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me
his prisoner, but endure affliction with us in the gospel according to
the power of God, [1:9]who saved us, and called us with a holy calling,
not according to our works, but according to his purpose and grace
given us in Christ Jesus from eternity, [1:10]but made known now
through the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who destroyed death,
and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, [1:11]of
which I was made a herald, and an apostle, and a teacher of the
nations; [1:12]for which cause I suffer these things; but I am not
ashamed; for I know in whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he
is able to keep my trust to that day.

4 [1:13]Retain the form of sound words which you heard from me in faith
and the love in Christ Jesus. [1:14]Guard the good trust, through the
Holy Spirit which dwells in us. [1:15]You know this, that all those in
Asia left me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. [1:16]May the Lord
show mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and
was not ashamed of my chains, [1:17] but being at Rome he sought most
diligently, and found me. [1:18]The Lord grant him to find mercy with
the Lord in that day. And what services he performed at Ephesus, you
know very well.

5 [2:1]Do you therefore, my son, be strong in the grace in Christ
Jesus, [2:2] and what you heard from me through many witnesses, these
things commit to faithful men, who shall be competent to teach others
also. [2:3]Endure evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. [2:4]No one
who serves as a soldier is involved in the business of life, that he
may please him who has employed him as a soldier. [2:5]And if a man
contends as an athlete, he is not crowned unless he contends lawfully.
[2:6]The husbandman who labors must first partake of the fruits of the
earth. [2:7]Consider what I say; for the Lord shall give you
understanding in all things.

6 [2:8]Remember Jesus Chris