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<title>2 Timothy — World English Bible Updated</title>
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<article class="book" data-template="book" id="2TI" data-book="2TI" data-name="2 Timothy" data-section="nt">
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<h1><span class="mt">Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy</span></h1>
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<li><a href="#ch1">1</a></li>
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<li><a href="#ch2">2</a></li>
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<li><a href="#ch3">3</a></li>
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<li><a href="#ch4">4</a></li>
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<div class="chapters">
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<section class="chapter" id="ch1" data-chapter="1">
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<h2 class="chapter-number">1</h2>
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<p class="p"><span class="v" id="v1_1">1</span> Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ<a class="noteref" id="fnref1_1" href="#fn1_1"><sup>*</sup></a> through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus, <span class="v" id="v1_2">2</span> to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.</p>
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<p class="p"><span class="v" id="v1_3">3</span> I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day <span class="v" id="v1_4">4</span> longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy; <span class="v" id="v1_5">5</span> having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, in you also.</p>
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<p class="p"><span class="v" id="v1_6">6</span> For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. <span class="v" id="v1_7">7</span> For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control. <span class="v" id="v1_8">8</span> Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God, <span class="v" id="v1_9">9</span> 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 eternal, <span class="v" id="v1_10">10</span> but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News. <span class="v" id="v1_11">11</span> For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. <span class="v" id="v1_12">12</span> For this cause I also suffer these things.</p>
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<p class="p">Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.</p>
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<p class="p"><span class="v" id="v1_13">13</span> Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. <span class="v" id="v1_14">14</span> That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.</p>
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<p class="p"><span class="v" id="v1_15">15</span> This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. <span class="v" id="v1_16">16</span> May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain, <span class="v" id="v1_17">17</span> but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently and found me <span class="v" id="v1_18">18</span> (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.</p>
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<section class="footnotes">
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<h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
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<li class="note" id="fn1_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref1_1">1:1</a> <span class="ft">“Christ” means “Anointed One”.</span></li>
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</section>
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<section class="chapter" id="ch2" data-chapter="2">
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<h2 class="chapter-number">2</h2>
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<p class="p"><span class="v" id="v2_1">1</span> You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. <span class="v" id="v2_2">2</span> The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. <span class="v" id="v2_3">3</span> You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. <span class="v" id="v2_4">4</span> No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier. <span class="v" id="v2_5">5</span> Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules. <span class="v" id="v2_6">6</span> The farmer who labors must be the first to get a share of the crops. <span class="v" id="v2_7">7</span> Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.</p>
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<p class="p"><span class="v" id="v2_8">8</span> Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the offspring<a class="noteref" id="fnref2_1" href="#fn2_1"><sup>*</sup></a> of David, according to my Good News, <span class="v" id="v2_9">9</span> in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained. <span class="v" id="v2_10">10</span> Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. <span class="v" id="v2_11">11</span> This saying is trustworthy:</p>
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<div class="poetry">
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1">“For if we died with him,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">we will also live with him.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_12">12</span> If we endure,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">we will also reign with him.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1">If we deny him,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">he also will deny us.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_13">13</span> If we are faithless,</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">he remains faithful;</p>
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<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for he can’t deny himself.”</p>
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<p class="p"><span class="v" id="v2_14">14</span> Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord that they don’t argue about words to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.</p>
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<p class="p"><span class="v" id="v2_15">15</span> Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth. <span class="v" id="v2_16">16</span> But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness, <span class="v" id="v2_17">17</span> and those words will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus: <span class="v" id="v2_18">18</span> men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some. <span class="v" id="v2_19">19</span> However, God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,”<a class="noteref" id="fnref2_2" href="#fn2_2"><sup>✡</sup></a> and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord<a class="noteref" id="fnref2_3" href="#fn2_3"><sup>†</sup></a> depart from unrighteousness.”</p>
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<p class="p"><span class="v" id="v2_20">20</span> Now in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay. Some are for honor and some for dishonor. <span class="v" id="v2_21">21</span> If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.</p>
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<p class="p"><span class="v" id="v2_22">22</span> Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. <span class="v" id="v2_23">23</span> But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife. <span class="v" id="v2_24">24</span> The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient, <span class="v" id="v2_25">25</span> in gentleness correcting those who oppose him. Perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth, <span class="v" id="v2_26">26</span> and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to do his will.</p>
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<section class="footnotes">
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<h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
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<li class="note" id="fn2_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref2_1">2:8</a> <span class="ft">or, seed</span></li>
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<li class="note" id="fn2_2" data-kind="xref"><span class="marker">✡</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref2_2">2:19</a> <span class="ft"><span class="xt"><a class="ref" href="NUM.html#v16_5">Numbers 16:5</a></span></span></li>
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<li class="note" id="fn2_3" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref2_3">2:19</a> <span class="ft">TR reads “Christ” instead of “the Lord”</span></li>
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</section>
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<section class="chapter" id="ch3" data-chapter="3">
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<h2 class="chapter-number">3</h2>
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<p class="p"><span class="v" id="v3_1">1</span> But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come. <span class="v" id="v3_2">2</span> For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, <span class="v" id="v3_3">3</span> without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good, <span class="v" id="v3_4">4</span> traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, <span class="v" id="v3_5">5</span> holding a form of godliness but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also. <span class="v" id="v3_6">6</span> For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, <span class="v" id="v3_7">7</span> always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. <span class="v" id="v3_8">8</span> Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected. <span class="v" id="v3_9">9</span> But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.</p>
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<p class="p"><span class="v" id="v3_10">10</span> But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness, <span class="v" id="v3_11">11</span> persecutions, and sufferings—those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all. <span class="v" id="v3_12">12</span> Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. <span class="v" id="v3_13">13</span> But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. <span class="v" id="v3_14">14</span> But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them. <span class="v" id="v3_15">15</span> From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. <span class="v" id="v3_16">16</span> Every Scripture is God-breathed and<a class="noteref" id="fnref3_1" href="#fn3_1"><sup>*</sup></a> profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, <span class="v" id="v3_17">17</span> that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.</p>
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<section class="footnotes">
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<h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
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<li class="note" id="fn3_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref3_1">3:16</a> <span class="ft">or, Every writing inspired by God is</span></li>
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<section class="chapter" id="ch4" data-chapter="4">
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<h2 class="chapter-number">4</h2>
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<p class="p"><span class="v" id="v4_1">1</span> I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom: <span class="v" id="v4_2">2</span> preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching. <span class="v" id="v4_3">3</span> For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts, <span class="v" id="v4_4">4</span> and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables. <span class="v" id="v4_5">5</span> But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.</p>
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<p class="p"><span class="v" id="v4_6">6</span> For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come. <span class="v" id="v4_7">7</span> I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith. <span class="v" id="v4_8">8</span> From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.</p>
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<p class="p"><span class="v" id="v4_9">9</span> Be diligent to come to me soon, <span class="v" id="v4_10">10</span> for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia. <span class="v" id="v4_11">11</span> Only Luke is with me. Take Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service. <span class="v" id="v4_12">12</span> But I sent Tychicus to Ephesus. <span class="v" id="v4_13">13</span> Bring the cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus when you come—and the books, especially the parchments. <span class="v" id="v4_14">14</span> Alexander the coppersmith did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds. <span class="v" id="v4_15">15</span> Beware of him, for he greatly opposed our words.</p>
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<p class="p"><span class="v" id="v4_16">16</span> At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them. <span class="v" id="v4_17">17</span> But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. <span class="v" id="v4_18">18</span> And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.</p>
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<p class="p"><span class="v" id="v4_19">19</span> Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus. <span class="v" id="v4_20">20</span> Erastus remained at Corinth, but I left Trophimus at Miletus sick. <span class="v" id="v4_21">21</span> Be diligent to come before winter. Eubulus salutes you, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.</p>
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<p class="p"><span class="v" id="v4_22">22</span> The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.</p>
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<footer class="colophon"><p>World English Bible Updated. Public Domain.</p></footer>
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