Thanksgiving

I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience(A) as my ancestors did, when I constantly remember you in my prayers night and day.(B) Remembering your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy. I recall your sincere faith(C) that first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice(D) 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.(E) For God has not given us a spirit of fear,(F) but one of power,[a](G) love,(H) and sound judgment.

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

(A)I thank God, whom I (B)serve with a (C)clear conscience [a]the way my forefathers did, (D)as I constantly remember you in my [b]prayers night and day, (E)longing to see you, (F)even as I recall your tears, so that I may be filled with joy. [c]For I am mindful of the (G)sincere faith within you, which first dwelled in your grandmother Lois and (H)your mother Eunice, and I am sure that it is in you as well. For this reason I remind you to kindle afresh (I)the gift of God which is in you through (J)the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us a (K)spirit of [d]timidity, but of power and love and [e]discipline.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Timothy 1:3 Lit from my forefathers
  2. 2 Timothy 1:3 Or petitions
  3. 2 Timothy 1:5 Lit Receiving remembrance of
  4. 2 Timothy 1:7 Or cowardice
  5. 2 Timothy 1:7 Or sound judgment