Remembering your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy. I recall your sincere faith(A) that first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice(B) and now, I am convinced, is in you also.

Therefore, I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is in you through the laying on of my hands.(C) For God has not given us a spirit of fear,(D) but one of power,[a](E) love,(F) and sound judgment.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:7 Or For the Spirit God gave us does not make us fearful, but gives us power

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