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To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

I am grateful to God, whom I serve with a clear conscience the way my forefathers did, as I unceasingly remember you in my prayers night and day,

For this reason I remind you to kindle afresh the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and self-discipline.

Therefore do not be ashamed of either the witness about our Lord or me His prisoner, but join with me in suffering for the gospel according to the power of God,

for which I endure hardship even to chains as a criminal. But the word of God has not been chained.

Remind them of these things, solemnly charging them in the presence of God not to dispute about words, which is useless and leads to the ruin of the hearers.

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.

Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, "The Lord knows those who are His," and, "Everyone who names the name of the Lord is to depart from wickedness."

with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may give them repentance leading to the full knowledge of the truth,

treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness,

so that the man of God may be equipped, having been thoroughly equipped for every good work.

I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom:

Paul, a slave of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of God's elect and the full knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

in the hope of eternal life, which the God who cannot lie promised from all eternity,

but at the proper time manifested His word in preaching, with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior,

To Titus, my genuine child according to our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

They profess to know God, but by their works they deny Him, being detestable and disobedient and unfit for any good work.

to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be slandered.