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To Timothy, my dear son: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
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So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner. Rather, join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God.
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What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus.
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Examples of Disloyalty and Loyalty
You know that everyone in the province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.
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May the Lord show mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains.
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On the contrary, when he was in Rome, he searched hard for me until he found me.
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May the Lord grant that he will find mercy from the Lord on that day! You know very well in how many ways he helped me in Ephesus.
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And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others.
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Join with me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
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and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.
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always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
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Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected.
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But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.
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persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
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For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
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Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.
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Personal Remarks
Do your best to come to me quickly,
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for Demas, because he loved this world, has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
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Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is helpful to me in my ministry.
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When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, and my scrolls, especially the parchments.
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Alexander the metalworker did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will repay him for what he has done.
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You too should be on your guard against him, because he strongly opposed our message.
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At my first defense, no one came to my support, but everyone deserted me. May it not be held against them.
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But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was delivered from the lion’s mouth.
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The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
