as I recall your sincere faith that first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and that I am confident lives also in you. The Gifts Timothy Has Received.
If you will give these instructions to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished on the words of the faith and of the sound teaching you have followed.
On this account I am suffering these things; but I am not ashamed, for I know him in whom I have believed and am confident that he is able to guard what has been entrusted to me until that day.
All these died in faith. They did not receive what had been promised but saw it and greeted it from afar and acknowledged themselves to be strangers and aliens on earth,
[For] one person considers one day more important than another, while another person considers all days alike. Let everyone be fully persuaded in his own mind.
The king knows about these matters and to him I speak boldly, for I cannot believe that [any] of this has escaped his notice; this was not done in a corner.