2 Timothy 1:14

CONTEXT- Stir Up Your Ministry vs. All Asia Turned from Paul 2 Timothy 1:3-18 3 I am grateful to God, Whom I worship with that same pure, unadulterated conscience as my ancestors had, while unceasingly, night and day, I remember you in prayers of requests for specific needs. 4 I long to see you as I remember your tears, that I may be totally filled with joy. 5 I recall your genuine believing which first lived within your grandmother, Lois, and your mother, Eunice, and I have long been persuaded it lives in you, too. 6 For this reason I remind you to fire up the gift of God, which is in you by the laying on of my hands, 7 for God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and of love and of sound thinking. 8 So be not ashamed of the witness of our lord, nor of me, his prisoner, but by the power of God endure [unavoidable] evil as you proclaim the good news. 9 He saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace given to us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time. 10 Yet now it [God’s own purpose and grace] has been manifested by the appearing of our savior Jesus Christ, who annulled death and by the good news brought to light both life and incorruption. 11 For this reason I was ordained a preacher and an apostle and a teacher of the Gentiles, 12 for which crime I also suffer many things. But I am not ashamed, for I know Whom I have believed and I am persuaded that He is able to guard the deposit committed to me until that day [the return]. 13 Hold, with believing and love in Christ Jesus, the pattern of sound words which you heard from me. 14 Guard the good deposit [committed to you] by operating holy spirit, which lives permanently within us. 15 You know that everyone in [the Roman province of] Asia, such as Phygellus and Hermogenes, has turned away from me. 16 May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus because he refreshed me many times and was not ashamed of my imprisonment. 17