Paul, who was an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus,

Write to my dear son Timothy. May grace, mercy, and peace be with you, from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ.

I am grateful to God, who I serve with a clean conscience, following in the footsteps of my ancestors. When I pray, I constantly miss you,

Remembering your tears, I eagerly want to see you day and night, so that I can be filled with joy.

Thinking of your sincere faith. This letter was first in the hearts of your grandmother Luo Yi and your mother Eunice. I firmly believe it is also in your heart.

To this end, I remind you to stir up like fire the gift that God has given you through the laying of my hands.

For God has not given us a timid heart, but a strong, loving, and steadfast heart.

Do not be ashamed to bear witness to our Lord, and do not be ashamed of me, who is imprisoned in the Lord. Always suffer with me for the gospel according to God’s power.

God saved us and called us with holiness, not according to our ways, but according to His will and grace. This grace was bestowed upon us in Christ Jesus before all time.

But now it has been revealed through the appearance of our Savior Christ Jesus. He has abolished death, and through the gospel, he has revealed the indestructible life.

I am appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher for this gospel.

For this reason, I also suffer these hardships. However, I am not ashamed. Because I know who I believe, and I firmly believe that he can preserve what I have entrusted to him until that day.

From the scale of the pure words that I have heard, you must use your faith and love in Christ Jesus, and always keep them.

The good way that was entrusted to you before, you must firmly guard it through the Holy Spirit who resides in us.

You know that everyone in Asia has abandoned me. Among them are Phirus and Hermogenes.

May the Lord have mercy on the people of the house of Anisepheth. Because he has repeatedly made me happy and not ashamed of my chains.

On the contrary, when he was in Rome, he eagerly sought me out and found me.

May the Lord grant him mercy on that day. You are well aware of how much he served me in Ephesus.