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 integrity, that, as a child a father, he served along with me in the gospel.
On account of which cause I remind you to revive and refire the gift of God which is in you by the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us the spirit of cowardice; but of power and divine love and prudence. read more. Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor me his prisoner: but suffer affliction for the sake of the gospel according to the power of God; the one having 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 to us in Christ Jesus before the eternal times, but now having been made manifest through the appearing of Jesus Christ our Saviour, the one having indeed destroyed death, and lighted up life and immortality through the gospel, unto which I have been placed a herald, and an apostle, and teacher: on account of which cause I indeed suffer these things: but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to stand guard over that which is committed unto me unto that day. Hold fast the form of sound words which you heard with me, in the faith and divine love which is in Christ Jesus: stand guard over the beautiful deposit through the Holy Ghost who dwells in us. You know this, that all who are in Asia, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes have turned away from me.
In the presence of God, and Jesus Christ, the one about to judge the living and the dead, I testify to, both his appearing and his kingdom; preach the word: be instant in season and out of season; convict, exhort, rebuke, with all longsuffering and teaching. read more. For the time will come when they will not endure healthy teaching; but according to their own lusts they will heap to themselves teachers itching as to their hearing; and they will indeed turn their hearing from the truth, and be turned unto fables. But be thou sober in all things, suffer affliction, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.