Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by God's will, according to promise of life, the life which is in Christ Jesus,

to Timotheus, my beloved child: grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord.

I am thankful to God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, how unceasingly I have the remembrance of thee in my supplications night and day,

For which cause I put thee in mind to rekindle the gift of God which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.

For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and of love, and of wise discretion.

Be not therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but suffer evil along with the glad tidings, according to the power of God;

Keep, by the Holy Spirit which dwells in us, the good deposit entrusted.

Take thy share in suffering as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

in which I suffer even unto bonds as an evil-doer: but the word of God is not bound.

Strive diligently to present thyself approved to God, a workman that has not to be ashamed, cutting in a straight line the word of truth.

Yet the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, The Lord knows those that are his; and, Let every one who names the name of the Lord withdraw from iniquity.

If therefore one shall have purified himself from these, in separating himself from them, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified, serviceable to the Master, prepared for every good work.

in meekness setting right those who oppose, if God perhaps may sometime give them repentance to acknowledgment of the truth,

without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good,

traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

that the man of God may be complete, fully fitted to every good work.

I testify before God and Christ Jesus, who is about to judge living and dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom,

I have combated the good combat, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.