longing to see you as I[a] remember your tears, so that I may be filled with joy, remembering the[b] sincere faith in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced that is in you also, for which reason I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is in you through the laying on of my hands.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Timothy 1:4 Here “as” is supplied as a component of the participle (“remember”) which is understood as temporal
  2. 2 Timothy 1:5 Literally “receiving a remembrance of the”

Recalling your tears,(A) I long to see you,(B) so that I may be filled with joy. I am reminded of your sincere faith,(C) which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice(D) and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also.

Appeal for Loyalty to Paul and the Gospel

For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.(E)

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