¹ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, according-to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus.

² To Timothy, my beloved child: grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

³ I have gratitude to God, to whom I am giving-divine-service from my ancestors in a clean conscience, as I have constant remembrance concerning you in my supplications, night and day.

⁴ I am longing to see you, and I have been reminded of your tears, in-order-that I may be filled from your joy,

⁵ receiving a reminder of the non-pretended faith, the one in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I also have confidence that it is in you.

⁶ Because of which case, I am reminding you to rekindle the gift$ of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

⁷ For$ God did not give to us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and love$ and self-discipline.

⁸ Therefore, do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor me, his prisoner, but suffer-hardship together-with the good-news according-to the power of God,

⁹ who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according-to our works, but according-to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times everlasting.

¹⁰ But now it was manifested through the appearing of our Savior, Jesus Christ, who indeed did-away-with death and illuminated both life and incorruption through the good-news,

¹¹ to which I was appointed$ a preacher and an apostle and a teacher of the Gentiles.

¹² Because of which case, I also am suffering these things too, but I am not ashamed, for$ I know the one whom I have believed and I have confidence that he is able to guard my deposit consigned to him $for that day.

¹³ Hold to the pattern of sound$ words which you heard from me, in faith and love$ in Christ Jesus.

¹⁴ Guard the good deposit consigned to you through the Holy Spirit the one dwelling in us.

¹⁵ You know this, that all the ones in Asia turned themselves away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

¹⁶ May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain,

¹⁷ but, when he came$ to Rome, he diligently sought me and found me

¹⁸ (may the Lord give to him to find mercy from the Lord in that day), and how-much he served me in Ephesus, you know this quite-well.