For God...

Remember that Paul wrote this second letter to his son, Timothy, from prison in Rome.

Paul was finally executed during this last incarceration...

2 Timothy 1 

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. 

11 And God chose me to be a preacher, 

an apostle, 

and a teacher of this Good News.

12 That is why I am suffering here in prison. 

But I am not ashamed of it, 

for I know the one in whom I trust, 

and I am sure that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him 

until the day of his return.

13 Hold on to the pattern of wholesome teaching you learned from me;

a pattern shaped by the faith 

and love 

that you have in Christ Jesus. 

14 Through the power of the Holy Spirit who lives within us, 

carefully guard the precious truth that has been entrusted to you.