# 2 Timothy 01 📖: Do Not Be Ashamed [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[-2 Timothy Overview]] | [[1 Timothy 06]] | [[2 Timothy 02]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] > [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]] > [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] > [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]] > [[#🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application]] > [[#💬 Discussion Questions]] > [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🔗 Related Passages]] > [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] > [[#📂 Internal Notes]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### Salutation **Principle**: Start with giving glory to the Lord. [[#Verse 01.]] From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to further the promise of life in Christ Jesus,  [[#Verse 02.]] to Timothy, my dear child. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord! ### Thanksgiving and Charge to Timothy **Principle**: Find reasons to be thankful for others. [[#Verse 03.]] I am thankful to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I remember you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day.  [[#Verse 04.]] As I remember your tears, I long to see you, so that I may be filled with joy.  [[#Verse 05.]] I recall your sincere faith that was alive first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and I am sure is in you. [[#Verse 06.]] Because of this I remind you to rekindle God’s gift that you possess through the laying on of my hands.  [[#Verse 07.]] ==For God did not give us a Spirit of fear but of power and love and self-control.== ### Not Ashamed of the Gospel **Principle**: Stay Faithful. [[#Verse 08.]] So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me, a prisoner for his sake, but by God’s power accept your share of suffering for the gospel.  [[#Verse 09.]] He is the one who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not based on our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began,  [[#Verse 10.]] but now made visible through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus. He has broken the power of death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel!  [[#Verse 11.]] For this gospel I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher. [[#Verse 12.]] Because of this, in fact, I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, because I know the one in whom my faith is set and I am convinced that he is able to protect what has been entrusted to me until that day.  ### Be Loyal to the Faith **Principle**: Don't give up. Stand Strong. [[#Verse 13.]] Hold to the standard of sound words that you heard from me and do so with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.  [[#Verse 14.]] Protect that good thing entrusted to you, through the Holy Spirit who lives within us. [[#Verse 15.]] You know that everyone in the province of Asia deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.  [[#Verse 16.]] May the Lord grant mercy to the family of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my imprisonment.  [[#Verse 17.]] But when he arrived in Rome, he eagerly searched for me and found me.  [[#Verse 18.]] May the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that day! And you know very well all the ways he served me in Ephesus. ## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights 1. 2 Timothy is likely Paul's last surviving letter, written from prison in Rome. 2. Early Christian tradition says Paul was executed in Rome under Nero in the mid-60s AD. 3. Paul's imprisonment here seems harsher than the house arrest of Acts 28. He is in chains (1:16), and Onesiphorus had to search hard to find him (1:17). 4. Timothy's mother Eunice was a Jewish believer married to a Greek man (Acts 16:1). 5. "Rekindle" (1:6) means to stir up a fire that is burning low. 6. "Fearfulness" (1:7) translates a word that often means cowardice or timidity. 7. "What has been entrusted" (1:12, 14) translates a word for a deposit placed in safekeeping. 8. Phygelus and Hermogenes (1:15) are mentioned only here in the Bible. 9. Onesiphorus had also served Paul in Ephesus (1:18). 10. Christ "broke the power of death" (1:10) translates a word meaning to make powerless or ineffective. ## 🧠 Chapter Summary > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter Christ is the Savior who broke the power of death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel (1:10). He guards what we entrust to Him until that day (1:12), for He holds the keys of death (Revelation 1:18). ## 🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 💬 Discussion Questions 1. Timothy's faith first lived in his grandmother Lois and his mother Eunice (1:5). Who passed faith on to you, and who are you passing it to? 2. God did not give us a Spirit of fearfulness but of power, love, and self-control (1:7). Where do you need that kind of courage? 3. Onesiphorus was not ashamed of Paul's chains (1:16-17). How can you stand with someone who is suffering? ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - 📖 verse 5: Sincere faith lived first in Lois and Eunice, and now lives in Timothy. - 📖 verses 6-7: Rekindle God's gift, for God gave us a Spirit of power, love, and self-control. - 📖 verse 9: God saved us and called us, not by our works, but by His own purpose and grace. - 📖 verse 12: Paul is not ashamed, because he knows the One he has believed. ## 🔗 Related Passages - 🔗 [[Acts 16#Verse 01.|Acts 16:1]] - Timothy's mother was a Jewish believer. - 🔗 [[Romans 01#Verse 16.|Romans 1:16]] - Not ashamed of the gospel. - 🔗 [[Ephesians 02#Verse 08.|Ephesians 2:8-9]] - Saved by grace, not by works. - 🔗 [[Hebrews 02#Verse 14.|Hebrews 2:14-15]] - Christ destroyed the one who holds the power of death. - 🔗 [[Revelation 01#Verse 18.|Revelation 1:18]] - Jesus holds the keys of death. ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection 📝 SOAP: [[2 Timothy 01 - SOAP|Don’t Give Up On People]] ## 📂 Internal Notes