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3 ) I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of you in my prayers night and day,
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4 ) Greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears, that I may be filled with joy,
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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 that in you also.
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6 ) Wherefore I put you in remembrance that you stir up the gift of God, which is in you by the putting on of my hands.
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7 ) For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
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8 ) Be not you therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be you partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God,
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9 ) Who has saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
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10 ) But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has abolished death, and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel: