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2 Timothy 1:4-6
New International Reader's Version
2 Timothy 1:4-6
New International Reader's Version
4 I remember your tears. I long to see you so that I can be filled with joy. 5 I remember your honest and true faith. It was alive first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice. And I am certain that it is now alive in you also.
Paul Encourages Timothy to Be Faithful
6 This is why I remind you to help God’s gift grow, just as a small spark grows into a fire. God put his gift in you when I placed my hands on you.
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2 Timothy 1:4-6
New International Version
2 Timothy 1:4-6
New International Version
4 Recalling your tears,(A) I long to see you,(B) so that I may be filled with joy. 5 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
6 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)
2 Timothy 1:4-6
King James Version
2 Timothy 1:4-6
King James Version
4 Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;
5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
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