2 Timothy 1:3-8

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Guard the Deposit Entrusted to You

³^(A)I thank God ^(B)whom I serve, as did my ancestors, ^(C)with a clear conscience, as I remember you ^(D)constantly in my prayers night and day. ⁴^(E)As I remember your tears, ^(F)I long to see you, that I may be filled with joy. ⁵I am reminded of ^(G)your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and ^(H)your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well. ⁶For this reason I remind you ^(I)to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands, ⁷for God gave us ^(J)a spirit not of fear but ^(K)of power and love and self-control.

⁸Therefore ^(L)do not be ashamed of ^(M)the testimony about our Lord, nor of ^(N)me his prisoner, but ^(O)share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God,

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Genesis 12:1-7

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The Call of Abram

12 Now ^(A)the Lord said^[a] to Abram, “Go from your country^[b] and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. ²^(B)And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. ³^(C)I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and ^(D)in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”^[c]

⁴So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from ^(E)Haran. ⁵And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan, ⁶Abram ^(F)passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to ^(G)the oak^[d] of ^(H)Moreh. At that time ^(I)the Canaanites were in the land. ⁷Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, ^(J)“To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.