(A)You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, (B)with all your soul, and with all your strength.

“And (C)these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. (D)You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. (E)You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. (F)You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

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Love(A) the Lord your God with all your heart(B) and with all your soul and with all your strength.(C) These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.(D) Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.(E) Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.(F) Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.(G)

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Timothy’s Faith and Heritage

I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my (A)forefathers did, as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day, greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears, that I may be filled with joy, when I call to remembrance (B)the [a]genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and (C)your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Timothy 1:5 Lit. unhypocritical

Thanksgiving

I thank God,(A) whom I serve, as my ancestors did, with a clear conscience,(B) as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers.(C) Recalling your tears,(D) I long to see you,(E) so that I may be filled with joy. I am reminded of your sincere faith,(F) which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice(G) and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also.

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22 But (A)the fruit of the Spirit is (B)love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, (C)goodness, (D)faithfulness, 23 [a]gentleness, self-control. (E)Against such there is no law.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 5:23 meekness

22 But the fruit(A) of the Spirit is love,(B) joy, peace,(C) forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control.(D) Against such things there is no law.(E)

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