2 Timothy 1

2 Timothy 1:1-2

¹Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus, ²to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Paul greets Timothy as his beloved child, identifying himself as an apostle by God’s will according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus, and blessing him with grace, mercy, and peace.

2 Timothy 1:3-5

³I 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 ⁴longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy; ⁵having 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.

Paul thanks God for Timothy with unceasing prayer, longing to see him, recalling his tears and the sincere faith that lived first in Lois and Eunice and now in Timothy.

2 Timothy 1:6

⁶For 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.

Because of Timothy’s sincere faith, Paul reminds him to stir up the gift of God given through the laying on of Paul’s hands.

2 Timothy 1:7

⁷For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

God did not give a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control—the antidote to timidity in gospel witness.

2 Timothy 1:8-12

⁸Therefore 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, ⁹who 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, ¹⁰but 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. ¹¹For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. ¹²For this cause I also suffer these things. 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.

Paul urges Timothy not to be ashamed of the Lord’s testimony or of Paul the prisoner, but to suffer for the gospel by God’s power—the God who saved and called by grace, revealed in Christ who abolished death.

2 Timothy 1:13-14

¹³Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁴That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

Timothy must hold the pattern of sound words heard from Paul in faith and love, and guard the good deposit through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

2 Timothy 1:15-18

¹⁵This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. ¹⁶May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain, ¹⁷but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently and found me ¹⁸(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.

Paul notes that many in Asia turned away from him, naming Phygelus and Hermogenes, while praising Onesiphorus who refreshed him, was not ashamed of his chain, and sought him out in Rome.

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