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 ye have known the trial of him, that, as a son with a father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
For which cause I remind thee that thou fan into a flame the divine gift, which is in thee by the imposition of my hands. For God hath not given us a spirit of fear; but of courage, and of love, and of sobriety. read more. Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but suffer affliction with me in the gospel, supported by the power of God; 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 time had a beginning; but is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and brought to light life and immortality by the gospel: whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. For which cause also I suffer these things; but I am not ashamed: for I know on whom I have placed my confidence, and am persuaded that he is mighty to guard my deposit unto the great day. Model thy teaching according to the pattern of the sound discourses, which thou hast heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. The glorious deposit committed to thy trust, guard by the Holy Ghost who dwelleth in us. Knowest thou this, that all those of Asia have deserted me? among whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
I ADJURE thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; preach the word, be urgent, in season, out of season; reprove, enjoin, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. read more. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own inclinations will set up a herd of teachers for themselves, having the itch of hearing; and will turn away their ears from the truth, and listen unto fables. But watch thou in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fully discharge thy ministry. For I am now ready to be sacrificed, and the time of my dissolution approaches.