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2 Timothy 1
1Paul, an apostle of Jesus through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
2to Timothy, my beloved child: , mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Jesus our Lord.
3I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day
4 to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;
5having been reminded of the sincere that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, in you also.
6For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
7For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
8Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,
9who us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and , which was given to us in Jesus before times eternal,
10but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.
11For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
12For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have , and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against .
13Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in and love which is in Jesus.
14That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the who dwells in us.
15This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.
16May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,
17but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently and found me
18(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in ); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.
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What does the Bible say about loneliness?
Scripture treats loneliness as a real ache rather than a spiritual failure. It says the first thing God called not good was a man being alone, that many of his most faithful servants were profoundly lonely, that his own presence is promised and sufficient, and that he ordinarily answers isolation by placing people in families and congregations rather than by removing the need.
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