2 Timothy 1:6-12

Contemporary English Version

⁶So I ask you to make full use of the gift God gave you when I placed my hands on you.^[a] Use it well. ⁷God's Spirit^[b] doesn't make cowards out of us. The Spirit gives us power, love, and self-control.

⁸Don't be ashamed to speak for our Lord. And don't be ashamed of me, just because I am in jail for serving him. Use the power that comes from God and join with me in suffering for telling the good news.

⁹God saved us and chose us
    to be his holy people.
We did nothing
    to deserve this,
but God planned it
    because he is so kind.
Even before time began
God planned for Christ Jesus
    to show kindness to us.

¹⁰Now Christ Jesus has come
to offer us God's gift
    of undeserved grace.
Christ our Savior defeated death
and brought us
    the good news.
It shines like a light
and offers life
    that never ends.

¹¹^(A) My work is to be a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher.^[c] ¹²This is why I am suffering now. But I am not ashamed! I know the one I have faith in, and I am sure he can guard until the last day what he has trusted me with.^[d]

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Notas al pie

1.6 when I placed my hands on you: Church leaders placed their hands on people who were being appointed to preach or teach (see 2 Timothy 4.14).
1.7 God's Spirit: Or “God.”
1.11 teacher: Some manuscripts add “of the Gentiles.”
1.12 what he has trusted me with: Or “what I have trusted him with.”