Guard the Deposit Entrusted to You
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I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my c forefathers did, as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day,
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greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears, that I may be filled with joy,
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when I call to remembrance d the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and e your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also.
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Therefore I remind you f to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
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For g God has not given us a spirit of fear, h but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
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i Therefore do not be ashamed of j the testimony of our Lord, nor of me k His prisoner, but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God,
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who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, l not according to our works, but m according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus n before time began,
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but o has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,
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p to which I was appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
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For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, q for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.
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r Hold fast s the pattern of t sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.
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That good thing which was committed to you, keep by the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
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This you know, that all those in Asia have turned away from me, among whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
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The Lord grant mercy to the u household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain;
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but when he arrived in Rome, he sought me out very zealously and found me.
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The Lord v grant to him that he may find mercy from the Lord w in that Day - and you know very well how many ways he x ministered to me at Ephesus.
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Acts 24:14
But this I confess to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets.
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1 Timothy 1:5
Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith.
1 Timothy 4:6
If you instruct the brethren in these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have carefully followed.
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Acts 16:1
Then he came to Derbe and Lystra. And behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a certain Jewish woman who believed, but his father was Greek.
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1 Timothy 4:14
Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership.
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John 14:27
Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Romans 8:15
For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father.
1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.
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Acts 1:8
"But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."
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Mark 8:38
"For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels."
Luke 9:26
For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His Father's, and of the holy angels.
Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.
2 Timothy 1:12
For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.
2 Timothy 1:16
The Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain.
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1 Timothy 2:6
Who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
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Ephesians 3:1
For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles -
2 Timothy 1:16
The Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain.
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Romans 3:20
Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Ephesians 2:8
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.
Ephesians 2:9
Not of works, lest anyone should boast.
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Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
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Romans 16:25
Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret since the world began
Ephesians 1:4
Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love.
Titus 1:2
In hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
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Ephesians 1:9
Having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself.
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Acts 9:15
But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel.
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1 Peter 4:19
Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls to Him in doing good, as to a faithful Creator.
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2 Timothy 3:14
But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.
Titus 1:9
Holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and convict those who contradict.
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Romans 2:20
An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and truth in the law.
Romans 6:17
But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.
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1 Timothy 6:3
If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness.
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2 Timothy 4:19
Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.
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Matthew 6:4
That your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly.
Mark 9:41
For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in My name, because you belong to Christ, assuredly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.
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2 Thessalonians 1:10
When He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who believe, because our testimony among you was believed.
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Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
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