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"1": "{From} Paul, a man who represents Jesus the Messiah. This is what God wanted. God has promised me that the Messiah Jesus will cause me to live.",
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"2": "To Timothy. I love you as if you were my own son. May God our Father and the Messiah Jesus our Lord act kindly and mercifully to you, and keep you peaceful.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
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"3": "I serve God because I truly want to do what he wants, just as my ancestors did. I thank God when I pray for you. I always mention you in my prayers at all times.",
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"4": "I really want to see you because I remember how you cried {when we separated}. If I see you again, I will rejoice so much.",
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"5": "I remember that you truly believe in Jesus. Your grandmother Lois first believed, and then your mother Eunice did as well. I am sure that you also truly believe like them!\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
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"6": "Because I am sure that you believe in him, I remind you to start using again the gift God gave you. You received this gift when I put my hands on you {to show that he had chosen you to do his work}.",
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"7": "God did not give us his Spirit to cause us to be afraid. Instead, his Spirit gives us power to obey him, to love him and others, and to control ourselves.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
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"8": "So do not be ashamed to tell people about our Lord. Do not be ashamed of me, even though I am a prisoner because I preach about him. Instead, be willing to suffer hardship with me as you tell others about the good news. God will give you strength {to suffer these hardships}.",
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"9": "{He will do this because} he saved us and called us to be a people set apart {as his own}. God did not save us because of any good works we did. Instead, he saved us because it was his plan, even before the world began, and because he wanted to show his kindness to us as a result of what Jesus the Messiah would do for us.",
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"10": "Now, because our Savior, Jesus the Messiah, has come, everyone can see {that he acts kindly toward us}. {Specifically}, he has declared the good news that we will not remain dead after we die. Instead, we will live forever in bodies that will not decay!",
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"11": "God decided to send me to be a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of this good news.\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"12": "So, I suffer here in this prison, but I am not ashamed {of being here}, because I know the Messiah Jesus, the one I have trusted. I am convinced that he is able to keep safe the good message that he has entrusted to me until the day when he returns.\n\\p",
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"13": "Be sure that you tell others the same accurate message that you heard from me. {And as you tell it,} keep trusting in the Messiah Jesus and keep loving others as the Messiah Jesus enables you to do.",
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"14": "Protect the good message that God has entrusted to you {for his people}. The Holy Spirit who lives in you will help you.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
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"15": "You know that almost all the believers in Asia Minor have left me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.",
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"16": "May the Lord be kind to the family of Onesiphorus, because he often helped me, and he was not ashamed that I am in prison.",
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"17": "On the contrary, when he came here to Rome, he kept searching for me until he found me.",
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"18": "May the Lord be kind to Onesiphorus on the final day when he, the Lord, will judge everyone. You remember very well how much he helped me in Ephesus.\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"front": "\\p"
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}
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