2. Timotheus 1

¹Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by God's will, according to promise of life, the [ergänzt: life] which [ergänzt: is] in Christ Jesus,
²to Timotheus, [ergänzt: my] beloved child: grace, mercy, peace, from God [ergänzt: the] Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord.
³I am thankful to God, whom I serve from [ergänzt: my] forefathers with pure conscience, how unceasingly I have the remembrance of thee in my supplications night and day,
⁴earnestly desiring to see thee, remembering thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;
⁵calling to mind the unfeigned faith which [ergänzt: has been] in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and in thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that in thee also.
⁶For which cause I put thee in mind to rekindle the gift of God which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
⁷For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and of love, and of wise discretion.
⁸Be 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;
⁹who has saved us, and has called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to [ergänzt: his] own purpose and grace, which [ergänzt: was] given to us in Christ Jesus before [ergänzt: the] ages of time,
¹⁰but has been made manifest now by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has annulled death, and brought to light life and incorruptibility by the glad tidings;
¹¹to which *I* have been appointed a herald and apostle and teacher of [ergänzt: the] nations.
¹²For which cause also I suffer these things; but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep for that day the deposit I have entrusted to him.
¹³Have an outline of sound words, which [ergänzt: words] thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which [ergänzt: are] in Christ Jesus.
¹⁴Keep, by the Holy Spirit which dwells in us, the good deposit entrusted.
¹⁵Thou knowest this, that all who [ergänzt: are] in Asia, of whom is Phygellus and Hermogenes, have turned away from me.
¹⁶The Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he has often refreshed me, and has not been ashamed of my chain;
¹⁷but being in Rome sought me out very diligently, and found [ergänzt: me] --
¹⁸the Lord grant to him to find mercy from [ergänzt: the] Lord in that day -- and how much service he rendered in Ephesus *thou* knowest best.

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