2 Timothy 1:3-7
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Thanksgiving and Encouragement
3 I am grateful to God—whom I worship with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did—when I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day.(A) 4 Recalling your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy. 5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, lives in you.(B) 6 For this reason I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands, 7 for God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.(C)
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2 Timothy 1:3-7
New English Translation
Thanksgiving and Charge to Timothy
3 I am thankful to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience as my ancestors did,[a] when I remember you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day.[b] 4 As I remember your tears, I long to see you,[c] so that I may be filled with joy. 5 I recall[d] your sincere faith[e] that was alive first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and I am sure[f] is in you.
6 Because of this I remind you to rekindle God’s gift that you possess[g] through the laying on of my hands. 7 For God did not give us a Spirit[h] of fear but of power and love and self-control.
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- 2 Timothy 1:3 tn Grk “from my ancestors.”
- 2 Timothy 1:3 tn Or “as I do constantly. By night and day I long to see you…”
- 2 Timothy 1:4 tn Grk “longing to see you, remembering your tears” (as a continuation of the preceding clause). Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
- 2 Timothy 1:5 tn Grk “recalling” (as a continuation of the preceding clause). Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
- 2 Timothy 1:5 tn Grk “the sincere faith in you.”
- 2 Timothy 1:5 tn Or “convinced.”
- 2 Timothy 1:6 tn Grk “that is in you.”
- 2 Timothy 1:7 tn Or “a spirit,” denoting the human personality under the Spirit’s influence as in 1 Cor 4:21; Gal 6:1; 1 Pet 3:4. But the reference to the Holy Spirit at the end of this section (1:14) makes it likely that it begins this way also, so that the Holy Spirit is the referent.
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