Remembering how you cried [Note: This was probably when Paul and Timothy last parted], I long to see you [again], so that I can be filled with joy.

Having in mind your true faith, which first was in your mother's mother Lois, and in your mother Eunice, and, I am certain, is now in you.

The reason I am reminding you [of these things] is so that you will rekindle the gift from God, which is in your life through the laying on my hands. [Note: This "gift" was probably his ordination to serve as an evangelist (See 4:1-5), and in addition, may have included a supernatural "spiritual gift" bestowed by the apostle Paul].

For the Spirit which God gave us was not a spirit of cowardice, but a spirit of power, love, and self-control.

Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

and was made manifest now through the manifestation of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who indeed did abolish death, and did enlighten life and immortality through the good news,

whereunto I was appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher.

That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.

The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:

But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me.

the Lord grant to him that he may find mercy from the Lord on that [great] day. You know very well how many things he did for me and what a help he was at Ephesus [you know better than I can tell you].

Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:

wherein I suffer trouble as an evil doer, even unto bonds. But the word of God was not bound.

But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.

and how I was persecuted and suffered in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

And thou -- be remaining in the things which thou didst learn and wast entrusted with, having known from whom thou didst learn,

But be on the watch for him, for he was violent in his attacks on our teaching.

At my first answer no one was beside me, but all deserted me. May it not be laid to their charge.

Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

Erastus remained in Corinth, but Trophimus I left behind in Miletus [because he] was sick.

The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen. {The end of the Second Epistle unto Timothy, Written from Rome, when Paul was presented the second time up before the Emperor Nero}