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And I am convinced in the Lord that I myself will arrive shortly also.

Therefore I am sending him with special urgency, in order that when you see him again you may rejoice, and I may be less anxious.

Not that I speak from need, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am.

I am able to do all things by the one who strengthens me.

But I have received everything in full and have an abundance; I am well supplied because I received from Epaphroditus what you had sent, a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.

for even if I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing and seeing your good order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

praying at the same time for us also, that God may open for us a door of the message, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which also I am a prisoner,

The saying is trustworthy and worthy of all acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.

I am setting before you this instruction, Timothy my child, in accordance with the prophecies spoken long ago about you, in order that by them you may fight the good fight,

for which I was appointed a herald and an apostle—I am speaking the truth, I am not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

I am writing these things to you, hoping to come to you in a short time.

But if I am delayed, I am writing in order that you may know how one must conduct oneself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and mainstay of the truth.

I am thankful to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day,

remembering the sincere faith in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced that is in you also,

for which reason also I suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, because I know in whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted until that day.

Consider what I am saying, for the Lord will grant you understanding in all these things.

For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is imminent.

instead I appeal to you because of love, since I am such a one as Paul, now an old man and also a prisoner of Christ Jesus.

I am appealing to you concerning my child whom I became the father of during my imprisonment, Onesimus.

Confident of your obedience, I am writing to you because I know that you will do even beyond what I say.