Our Savior Christ Jesus, abolished death and brought life and immortality
to light through the Gospel. –2 Timothy 1:10 (NRSVCE)
Thanksgiving and Encouragement
I am grateful to God — whom I worship with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did — when I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day.
Recalling your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy.
I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that lived first in your Grandmother — and your Mother and now, I am sure lives in you.
For this reason I remind you to rekindle the Gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands; For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather a Spirit of Power and of love and of self-discipline.
Do not be ashamed, then of the testimony about Our Lord or of me a prisoner but join with me in suffering for the Gospel, relying on the Power of God who saved us and called us with a Holy Calling, not according to our works but according to His own purpose and grace.
This grace was given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages began but it has now been revealed through the appearing of Our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel.
For this Gospel I was appointed a herald, an Apostle and a teacher, for this reason I suffer as I do but I am not ashamed, for I know the One in whom I have put my trust and I am sure that He is able to guard until that day what I have entrusted to Him.
Hold to the standard of sound teaching that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. Guard the Good Treasure entrusted to you, with the help of the Holy Spirit living in us. –2 Timothy 1:3-14
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