4. longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;
5. having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.
6. 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.
7. For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
8. Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,
9. 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 Messiah Yeshua before times eternal,