2. To Timothy, my beloved son:Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
3. I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience as my forefathers did, as I continually remember you in my prayers night and day,
4. greatly desiring to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy,
5. remembering the genuine faith that first lived in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and that I am persuaded lives in you also.
6. Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God, which is in you by the laying on of my hands.