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2 Timothy 1

The TorahRooted Bible (TRB), translated directly from the Hebrew and Greek.

Greeting

1 Paul, an apostle of Yeshua the Messiah through the will of Elohim, according to the promise of life which is in the Messiah Yeshua, 2 to Timothy, a beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace from Elohim the Father and the Messiah Yeshua our Lord.

A sincere faith handed down

3 I thank Elohim, whom I serve with a pure conscience as my forefathers did, as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day, 4 greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears, that I may be filled with joy, 5 when I call to remembrance the sincere faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also. 6 Therefore I remind you to rekindle the gift of Elohim which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 7 For Elohim has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. 8 Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but share with me in suffering for the gospel according to the power of Elohim, 9 who has 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 the Messiah Yeshua before the ages began, 10 but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Yeshua the Messiah, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, 11 to which I was appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the nations. 12 For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to guard my deposit until that Day. 13 Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in the Messiah Yeshua. 14 Guard the good deposit through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

Deserted and refreshed

15 This you know, that all those in Asia have turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. 16 May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain; 17 but when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently and found me— 18 the Lord grant to him that he may find mercy from the Lord in that Day—and you know very well how much he served at Ephesus.

Notes

  • 1:1 This is the last of Paul's letters that has come down to us. He writes as a prisoner in Rome (1:8, 16-17), deserted by many, expecting to die soon: "the time of my departure is at hand" (4:6). Many date it to about AD 64-67, during a second imprisonment in Rome under Nero, after the events of Acts 28; early tradition says Paul was put to death there. As with 1 Timothy, some scholars have questioned whether Paul himself wrote it, while others note its many personal details. It is a father's last charge to his son in the faith: hold fast to the Scriptures and the gospel, and pass them on (2:2; 3:14-17; 4:2).
  • 1:3 "Serve" is latreuō, the word for worship and for the service of the Temple. At the end of his life Paul still describes his service as continuous with that of his Jewish forefathers, as he told the governor Felix, "so I worship the Elohim of my fathers, believing all things that are written according to the Torah and in the Prophets" (Acts 24:14), and the Sanhedrin, "I have lived in all good conscience before Elohim until this day" (Acts 23:1).
  • 1:5 Timothy's mother Eunice was "a certain Jewish woman who believed" (Acts 16:1), and his grandmother Lois was evidently a Jewish believer as well. The faith of Israel was handed on in the home, as the Torah commands: "You shall teach them diligently to your children" (Deuteronomy 6:7); so Timothy had known the Holy Scriptures "from childhood" (3:15), learned from these two women before he ever met Paul.
  • 1:10 The prophets had promised the defeat of death itself: "He will swallow up death forever" (Isaiah 25:8), and "I will redeem them from death" (Hosea 13:14), the verses Paul joins in 1 Corinthians 15:54-55. "Appearing" (epiphaneia) is a word Paul uses in these letters both for the Messiah's first coming, as here, and for His return (4:1, 8; Titus 2:13).
  • 1:18 "Asia" is the Roman province whose chief city was Ephesus. Onesiphorus searched the prisons of Rome for Paul when others kept their distance. Paul prays for mercy for "the household of Onesiphorus" and for Onesiphorus himself "in that Day"; some think he had died, others that he was simply away from home, and the text does not say. "That Day" (also verse 12 and 4:8) is the day of the Lord's judgment, as the prophets spoke of "that day."

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