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having been reminded of the unfeigned faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.
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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.
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For God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and discipline.
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Don't be ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, his prisoner; but suffer hardship with the gospel according to the power of God,
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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,
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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 gospel.
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For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
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For this cause I suffer also 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.
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Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
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That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit which dwells in us.
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This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.
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