Juni 6, 2012, Lektüre

1:1	Paul, ein Apostel Jesu Christi durch den Willen Gottes, in accord with the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
1:2	zu Timotheus, most beloved son. Anmut, Gnade, Frieden, von Gott dem Vater und von Christus Jesus, unserem Herrn.
1:3	I give thanks to God, whom I serve, as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. For without ceasing I hold the remembrance of you in my prayers, Nacht und Tag,
1:6	Aus diesem Grund, I admonish you to revive the grace of God, which is in you by the imposition of my hands.
1:7	For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of virtue, and of love, and of self-restraint.
1:8	Und so, do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, his prisoner. Stattdessen, collaborate with the Gospel in accord with the virtue of God,
1:9	who has freed us and has called us to his holy vocation, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the ages of time.
1:10	And this has now been made manifest by the illumination of our Savior Jesus Christ, who certainly has destroyed death, and who has also illuminated life and incorruption through the Gospel.
1:11	Von diesem Evangelium, I have been appointed a preacher, and an Apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
1:12	Aus diesem Grund, I also suffer these things. But I am not confounded. For I know in whom I have believed, and I am certain that he has the power to preserve what was entrusted to me, unto that day.

Kommentare