The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. Translated according to the Ebrue and Greke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languges. VVith moste profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance as may appeare in the epistle to the reader

CHAP. I.

6 Paul exhorteth Timotheus to stedfastnes and pacience in persecution, and to continue in the doctrine, that he had taught him. 12 Whereof his bonds and afflictions were agage. 16 A commendation of Onesiphorus.

1 PAul an Apostle of Iesus Christ by the will of God,a accor∣dyng to the promes of life, whiche is in Christ Iesus.

2 To Timotheus (my) beloued sonne: Grace, mercie, (and) peace from God the Father, and (from) Iesus Christ our Lord.

3 I thanke God,* whome I serue from (mine) b elders with pure conscience, that without ceasing I haue remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day.

4 Desiring to se thee, mindful of thy teares, that I may be filled with ioye:

5 When I call to remembrance the vnfained faith that is in thee, whiched welt first in thy grandmother Lois, and in this mother Eu∣nice, and am assured that (it dwelleth) in thee also.

6 Wherefore, I put thee in remembrance that thouc stirre vp the gifte of God whiche is in thee, by the putting on ofd mine hands.

7 For God hathe not giuen to vs the Spirit ofe feare, but of power, and of loue, and of a sounde minde.

8 Be not therefore ashamed of the testimonie of our Lord, nether of me his prisoner: but be partaker of the afflictions of the Gospel, according to the power of God.

9 Who hathe saued vs, and called vs with an * holie calling, not according to our* workes but according to his owne purpose & grace which was giuen to vs through Christ Iesus before the * worlde was.

10 But is now made manifest by thef appea∣ring of our Sauiour Iesus Christ, who hathe abolished death, and hathe broght life and immortalitie vnto light through the Gospel.

11 * Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, & Apostle, and ateacher of the Gentiles.

12 For the which cause I also suffre these things but I am not ashamed: for I knowe whome I haue beleued, and I am persuaded that he is able to kepe that whiche I haueg cōmitted to him against that day.

13 Kepe the true paterne of the wholsome wordes, whiche thou hast heard of me in faith and loue whiche is in Christ Iesus.

14 Thath worthie thing, which was commit∣ted to thee, kepe through the holie Gost, whiche dwelleth in vs.

15 This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia, be turned from me: of whiche sorte are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

16 The Lorde giue mercie vnto the house of One siphorus: for he oftrefreshed me, & was not ashamed of my chaine.

17 But when he was at Rome, he soght me out verie diligently, and founde (me.)

18 The Lord grant vnto him, that he may finde mercie with the Lord at that day, and in how manie things he hathe ministred vnto me at Ephesus, thou knowest verie wel.

Notes

• a

  Being sent of God to preache that life 〈◊〉〈◊〉 he had promised in Christ Iesus.
• Act. 22. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• b

  Following the steppes of mine ancestres, as Abraham, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Iacob, and others of whome I am come and of whome I recei∣ued the true reli gion by successiō
• c

  The gift of God is a certein hue∣lie flame 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in our hearts whiche Satan & the flesh labour to quenche, and therfore we must 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it vp.
• d

  With the rest of the Elders of Ephesus. 1.
• e

  As thogh God wolde destroye vs.
• Tim. 4. 14.
• 1. Cor. 1. 2.
• 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 1. 3.
• 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 16. 25.
• f

  He speaketh here of his first 〈◊〉〈◊〉; which 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it semed 〈◊〉〈◊〉 & contem∣ptible, yet was honorable & glo rious: therefore our mindes ought to be lifted vp from the con∣sideration of worldlie things to contemplate the maiestie ther of.
• 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 9.
• Col. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 26.
• Tit 1. 2.
• 1. Pet. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 20.
• 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Tim 2. 7.
• g

  Whiche is my self.
• h

  The grace of the holie Gost.