Remembering how you cried [Note: This was probably when Paul and Timothy last parted], I long to see you [again], so that I can be filled with joy.

Having in mind your true faith, which first was in your mother's mother Lois, and in your mother Eunice, and, I am certain, is now in you.

The reason I am reminding you [of these things] is so that you will rekindle the gift from God, which is in your life through the laying on my hands. [Note: This "gift" was probably his ordination to serve as an evangelist (See 4:1-5), and in addition, may have included a supernatural "spiritual gift" bestowed by the apostle Paul].

For the Spirit which God gave us was not a spirit of cowardice, but a spirit of power, love, and self-control.

For He saved us and called us with a holy call, not in accordance with anything that we had done, but in accordance with His own purpose and unmerited favor which was shown us through union with Christ Jesus eternal ages ago,

and was made manifest now through the manifestation of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who indeed did abolish death, and did enlighten life and immortality through the good news,

for which I was appointed a herald, and an apostle, and a teacher of Gentiles.

That good thing which was given to you keep safe, through the Holy Spirit which is in us.

May the Lord show mercy to the family of Onesiphorus, because he often cheered me and was not ashamed of the chains I wore.

But when he was in Rome, he went in search of me everywhere, and came to me

the Lord grant to him that he may find mercy from the Lord on that [great] day. You know very well how many things he did for me and what a help he was at Ephesus [you know better than I can tell you].

Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:

wherein I suffer trouble as an evil doer, even unto bonds. But the word of God was not bound.

But they will not make any more progress, for their folly will be evident to everybody, as theirs was.

and how I was persecuted and suffered in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

And thou -- be remaining in the things which thou didst learn and wast entrusted with, having known from whom thou didst learn,

But be on the watch for him, for he was violent in his attacks on our teaching.

In my first defence none was present with me, but all forsook me; (may it not be reckoned to them.)

But the Lord stood by me and gave me strength, so that the message preached by me might have its full effect and all the heathen might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion's jaws.

Erastus was stopping at Corinth; but Trophimus, when I last saw him was at Miletus, ill.

The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen. {The end of the Second Epistle unto Timothy, Written from Rome, when Paul was presented the second time up before the Emperor Nero}