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2 Timothy 1

6 Paul exhorteth Timotheus to steadfastness and patience in persecution, and to continue in the doctrine, that he had taught him, 12 Whereof his bonds and afflictions were a gage. 16 A commendation of Onesiphorus.
1.Paul an Apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, aaccording to the promise of life, which is in CHRIST JESUS,
2.To Timotheus my beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ our Lord.
3.I thank God, *whom I serve from mine belders with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day,
4.Desiring to see thee, mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy:
5.When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and in thy mother Eunice, and am assured that it dwelleth in thee also.
6.Wherefore, I put thee in remembrance that thou cstir up the gift of God which is in thee, by the putting on of dmine hands.
7.For God hath not given to us the Spirit of efear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
8.Be not therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, neither of me his prisoner: but be partaker of the afflictions of the Gospel, according to the power of God,
9.Who hath saved us, and called us with an *holie calling, not according to our *works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us through Christ Jesus before the *world was.
10.But is now made manifest by the fappearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality unto light through the Gospel.
11.*Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and Apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
12.For the which cause I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have gcommitted to him against that day.
13.Keep the true pattern of the wholesome words, which thou hast heard of me in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
14.That hworthy thing, which was committed to thee, keep through the holie Ghost, which dwelleth in us.
15.This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia, be turned from me: of which sort are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
16.The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus: for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain.
17.But when he was at Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me.
18.The Lord grant unto him, that he may find mercy with the Lord at that day, and in how many things he hath ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest well.

Notes

1-a.
Being sent of God to preach that life which he had promised in Christ Jesus.
3-*.
Act. 22.3.
3-b.
Following the steps of mine ancestors, as Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and others of whom I am come and of whom I received the true religion by succession.
6-c.
The gift of God is a certain lively flame kindled in our hearts, which Satan and the flesh labour to quench, and therefore we must nourish it, and stir it up.
6-d.
With the rest of the Elders of Ephesus, 1 Tim. 4.14.
7-e.
As though God would destroy us.
9-*.
1 Cor. 1.2.
9-*-1.
Eph. 1.3, Titus 3.5.
9-*-2.
Rom. 16.25, Eph. 3.9, Col. 1.26, Titus 1.2, 1 Pet. 1.20.
10-f.
He speaks here of his first coming, which though it seemed poor and contemptible, yet was honourable and glorious: therefore our minds ought to be lifted up from the consideration of worldly things, to contemplate the majesty thereof.
11-*.
1 Tim. 2.7.
12-g.
Which is myself.
14-h.
The graces of the holie Ghost.