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I am calling up memories of your sincere and unqualified faith (the [a]leaning of your entire personality on God in Christ in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness), [a faith] that first lived permanently in [the heart of] your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am [fully] persuaded, [dwells] in you also.

That is why I would remind you to stir up (rekindle the embers of, fan the flame of, and keep burning) the [gracious] gift of God, [the inner fire] that is in you by means of the laying on of my hands [[b]with those of the elders at your ordination].

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Timothy 1:5 Alexander Souter, Pocket Lexicon of the Greek New Testament.
  2. 2 Timothy 1:6 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament.

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