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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And ye know his proof, that, as a child to a father, he served with me in the good news.
By which I remind thee of the cause to light up the favor of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. For God gave not to us the spirit of timidity; but of power, and love, and of soundness of mind. read more. Therefore shouldest thou not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his imprisoned: but partake of afflictions with the good news according to the power of God; Who having saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, given us in Christ Jesus before eternal times, And now made manifest by the appearance of our Saviour Jesus Christ, having truly left death unemployed, and having brought life and immortality to light by the good news: To which I was set a herald, and sent, teacher of the nations. By which cause I also suffer these things: but I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able to watch my deposits to that day. Hold the model of sound words, which thou didst hear of me, in the faith and love which in Christ Jesus. Watch the good deposit by the Holy Spirit dwelling in us. Thou knowest this, that all they dwelling in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
I call to witness before God there fore, and the Lord Jesus Christ, being about to judge the living and the dead according to his appearance and his kingdom; Proclaim the word; keep fixed seasonably, and unseasonably; refute, censure, beseech, in all longsnffering and teaching. read more. For the time will be when they will not hear sound doctrine; but according to their own eager desires they will heap up to themselves teachers, feeling itchings for a report; And truly from the truth will they turn away the hearing, and be turned aside to fictions. And thou be sober in all things, suffer ill treatment, do the work of the bearer of good news, render thy service perfectly certain. For I am already poured out, and the time of my deliverance has been fixed.