2 Timothy 1:5
Having in mind your true faith, which first was in your mother's mother Lois, and in your mother Eunice, and, I am certain, is now in you.
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4Desiring to see you, keeping in my memory your weeping, so that I may be full of joy;
Cross References
Psalms 17:1A Prayer. Of David. Let my cause come to your ears, O Lord, give attention to my cry; give ear to my prayer which goes not out from false lips.
Psalms 22:10\22:9\But it was you who took care of me from the day of my birth: you gave me faith even from my mother's breasts.
Psalms 77:6\77:5\My thoughts go back to the days of the past, to the years which are gone.
Psalms 86:16O be turned to me and have mercy on me: give your strength to your servant, and your salvation to the son of her who is your servant.
Jeremiah 3:10But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.
Acts 16:1And he came to Derbe and Lystra: and there was a certain disciple there named Timothy, whose mother was one of the Jews of the faith, but his father was a Greek;
Matthew Henry on 2 Timothy 1:2-6
Second Timothy This second epistle Paul wrote to Timothy from Rome, when he was a prisoner there and in danger of his life; this is evident from these words, I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand, ch. iv. 6 . It appears that his removal out of this world, in his own apprehension, was not far off, especially considering the rage and malice of his persecutors; and that he had been brought before the emperor Nero, which he calls his first answer, when no man stood with him, but all men… Read the whole commentary →