This charge I entrust to you, Timothy my son, in keeping with the prophecies once spoken about you, so that by them you fight the good fight,
Now Paul came to Derbe and Lystra. There was a disciple there named Timothy, son of a woman who was a Jewish believer and a Greek father,
For this reason I have sent you Timothy, my dearly loved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you of my ways in Messiah, just as I teach everywhere in every community.
What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink its milk?
But you know Timothy’s proven character, that he served with me in spreading the Good News like a son with his father.
To Timothy, a true child in faith: Grace, mercy, shalom from God the Father and Messiah Yeshua, our Lord!
Now the goal of this command is love from of a pure heart and a clear conscience and a genuine faith.
Do not neglect the spiritual gift within you, which was given to you through prophecy with the laying on of hands of the elders.
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving;
O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, turning away from pointless chatter and the contradictions of so-called knowledge—
To Timothy my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and shalom from God the Father and Messiah Yeshua our Lord!
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.
To Titus, a true child of our common faith: Grace and shalom from God the Father and Messiah Yeshua, our Savior!
I beg you for my child Onesimus—for whom I became a spiritual father while in chains.