{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_8282/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_8282","id":"gutenberg_8282","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8282","summary":null,"tags":["Bible. Timothy, 2nd","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"From www.ebible.org with slight reformatting by Martin Ward.\n\n\n\nBook 55 2 Timothy\n001:001 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God,\n        according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,\n001:002 to Timothy, my beloved child:  Grace, mercy, and peace,\n        from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.\n001:003 I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a\n        pure conscience.  How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions,\n        night and day\n001:004 longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be\n        filled with joy;\n001:005 having been reminded of the unfeigned faith that is in you;\n        which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your\n        mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.\n001:006 For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift\n        of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.\n001:007 For God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power,\n        love, and self-control.\n001:008 Therefore don't be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord,\n        nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News\n        according to the power of God,\n001:009 who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according\n        to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace,\n        which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,\n001:010 but has now been revealed by the appearing of our\n        Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life\n        and immortality to light through the Good News.\n001:011 For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle,\n        and a teacher of the Gentiles.\n001:012 For this cause I also suffer these things.  Yet I am not ashamed,\n        for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded\n        that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him\n        against that day.\n001:013 Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me,\n        in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.\n001:014 That good thing which was committed to you, guard through\n        the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.\n001:015 This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me;\n        of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.\n001:016 May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus,\n        for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,\n001:017 but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me\n001:018 (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord's mercy in that day);\n        and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.\n002:001 You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is\n        in Christ Jesus.\n002:002 The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses,\n        commit the same to faithful men, who will be able to\n        teach others also.\n002:003 You therefore must endure hardship, as a good soldier\n        of Christ Jesus.\n002:004 No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life,\n        that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.\n002:005 Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn't crowned unless\n        he has competed by the rules.\n002:006 The farmers who labor must be the first to get a share\n        of the crops.\n002:007 Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding\n        in all things.\n002:008 Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the seed of David,\n        according to my Good News,\n002:009 in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal.\n        But God's word isn't chained.\n002:010 Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones' sake, that they\n        also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus\n        with eternal glory.\n002:011 This saying is faithful:  \"For if we died with him, we will\n        also live with him.\n002:012 If we endure, we will also reign with him.  If we deny him,\n        he also will deny us.\n002:013 If we are faithless, he remains faithful.  He can't deny himself.\"\n002:014 Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight\n        of the Lord, that they don't argue about words, to no profit,\n        to the subverting of those who hear.\n002:015 Give diligence to present yourself approved by God,\n        a workman who doesn't need to be ashamed, properly handling\n        the Word of Truth.\n002:016 But shun empty chatter, for they will proceed further in ungodliness,\n002:017 and their word will consume like gangrene, of whom is\n        Hymenaeus and Philetus;\n002:018 men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection\n        is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some.\n002:019 However God's firm foundation stands, having this seal,\n        \"The Lord knows those who are his,\"{Numbers 16:5} and,\n        \"Let every one who names the name of the Lord{TR reads \"Christ\"\n        instead of \"the Lord\"} depart from unrighteousness.\"\n002:020 Now in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and\n        of silver, but also of wood and of clay.  Some are for honor,\n        and some for dishonor.\n002:021 If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel\n        for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master's use,\n        prepared for every good work.\n002:022 Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love,\n        and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.\n002:023 But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that\n        they generate strife.\n002:024 The Lord's servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all,\n        able to teach, patient,\n002:025 in gentleness correcting those who oppose him:  perhaps God may\n        give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,\n002:026 and they may recover themselves out of the devil's snare,\n        having been taken captive by him to his will.\n003:001 But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.\n003:002 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful,\n        arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,\n003:003 without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers,\n        without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,\n003:004 traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather\n        than lovers of God;\n003:005 holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof.\n        Turn away from these, also.\n003:006 For of these are those who creep into houses, and take captive\n        gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,\n003:007 always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge\n        of the truth.\n003:008 Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose\n        the truth; men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.\n003:009 But they will proceed no further.  For their folly will be\n        evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.\n003:010 But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith,\n        patience, love, steadfastness,\n003:011 persecutions, and sufferings:  those things that happened to me\n        at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra.  I endured those persecutions.\n        Out of them all the Lord delivered me.\n003:012 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus\n        will suffer persecution.\n003:013 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse,\n        deceiving and being deceived.\n003:014 But you remain in the things which you have learned and have\n        been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.\n003:015 From infancy, you have known the sacred writings which are\n        able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is\n        in Christ Jesus.\n003:016 Every writing inspired by God{literally, God-breathed} is\n        profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction,\n        and for instruction which is in righteousness,\n003:017 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped\n        for every good work.\n004:001 I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ,\n        who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing\n        and his Kingdom:\n004:002 preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season;\n        reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.\n004:003 For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound\n        doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves\n        teachers after their own lusts;\n004:004 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn\n        aside to fables.\n004:005 But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work\n        of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.\n004:006 For I am already being offered, and the time of my\n        departure has come.\n004:007 I have fought the good fight.  I have finished the course.\n        I have kept the faith.\n004:008 From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness,\n        which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on\n        that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have\n        loved his appearing.\n004:009 Be diligent to come to me soon,\n004:010 for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went\n        to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.\n004:011 Only Luke is with me.  Take Mark, and bring him with you,\n        for he is useful to me for service.\n004:012 But I sent Tychicus to Ephesus.\n004:013 Bring the cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus when you come,\n        and the books, especially the parchments.\n004:014 Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me.\n        The Lord will repay him according to his works,\n004:015 of whom you also must beware; for he greatly opposed our words.\n004:016 At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me.\n        May it not be held against them.\n004:017 But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me\n        the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles\n        might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.\n004:018 And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will\n        preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom; to whom be the glory\n        forever and ever.  Amen.\n004:019 Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus.\n004:020 Erastus remained at Corinth, but I left Trophimus at Miletus sick.\n004:021 Be diligent to come before winter.  Eubulus salutes you,\n        as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.\n004:022 The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.  Grace be\n        with you.  Amen.","title":"The World English Bible (WEB): 2 Timothy","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":1718}