Reference: Timothy, Second Epistle to
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was probably written a year or so after the first, and from Rome, where Paul was for a second time a prisoner, and was sent to Timothy by the hands of Tychicus. In it he entreats Timothy to come to him before winter, and to bring Mark with him (comp. Php 2:22). He was anticipating that "the time of his departure was at hand" (2Ti 4:6), and he exhorts his "son Timothy" to all diligence and steadfastness, and to patience under persecution (2Ti 1:6-15), and to a faithful discharge of all the duties of his office (2Ti 4:1-5), with all the solemnity of one who was about to appear before the Judge of quick and dead.
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But you know his approved character, that as a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel.
Wherefore I exhort you to kindle up the gift of God that is in you by the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. read more. Be not, therefore, ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, his prisoner: but jointly suffer evil in the gospel according to the power of God, who has saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus be fore the times of the ages, but is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has deprived death of its power, and brought life and incorruptibility to light through the gospel; to which I have been appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles; for which cause I also suffer these things; yet I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have intrusted to him till that day. Hold fast the form of sound words which you have heard from me, in faithfulness and in love which is in Christ Jesus. That good thing which was intrusted to you, keep by the Holy Spirit that dwells in us. You know this, that all those who are in Asia have turned away from me; all those, I say, of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
I charge you, therefore, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom, preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and teaching. read more. For the time will come when they will not endure sound teaching, but according to their own desires they will pro cure for themselves an abundance of teachers to gratify their itching ears: and they will turn away their ears from the truth, and be turned to fables. But do you be watchful in all things, endure evil, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.? For I am now ready to be poured out, and the time of my departure is at hand.