short statement

In his last letter shortly before he was killed, Paul wrote this in his second letter to his adopted son, Timothy...

2 Timothy

9 For God saved us 

and called us to live a holy life. 

He did this, 

not because we deserved it, 

but because that was his plan from before the beginning of time;

to show us his grace through Christ Jesus. 

10 And now he has made all of this plain to us 

by the appearing of Christ Jesus, 

our Savior. 

He broke the power of death 

and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the Good News.