2 Timothy 1:3-7

Modern English Version

Loyalty to the Gospel

³ I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience as my forefathers did, as I continually remember you in my prayers night and day, ⁴ greatly desiring to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy, ⁵ remembering the genuine faith that first lived in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and that I am persuaded lives in you also.

⁶ Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God, which is in you by the laying on of my hands. ⁷ For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and love, and self-control.