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# 2 Timothy 1

2 Timothy 1 is chapter 1 of 4 in the Second Letter to Timothy. Here are all 18 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> He admonishes him to stir up the grace he received by his ordination and not to be discouraged at his sufferings, but to hold firm the sound doctrine of the gospel.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## 2 Timothy 1 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, in accord with the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
2. to Timothy, most beloved son. Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Lord.
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, night and day,
4. desiring to see you, recalling your tears so as to be filled with joy,
5. calling to mind the same faith, which is in you unfeigned, which also first dwelt in your grandmother, Lois, and in your mother, Eunice, and also, I am certain, in you.
6. Because of this, I admonish you to revive the grace of God, which is in you by the imposition of my hands.
7. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of virtue, and of love, and of self-restraint.
8. And so, do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, his prisoner. Instead, collaborate with the Gospel in accord with the virtue of God,
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.
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.
11. Of this Gospel, I have been appointed a preacher, and an Apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
12. For this reason, 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.
13. Hold to the kind of sound words that you have heard from me in the faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
14. Guard the good entrusted to you through the Holy Spirit, who lives within us.
15. Know this: that all those who are in Asia have turned away from me, among whom are Phigellus and Hermogenes.
16. May the Lord have mercy on the house of Onesiphorus, because he has often refreshed me, and he has not been ashamed of my chains.
17. Instead, when he had arrived in Rome, he anxiously sought me and found me.
18. May the Lord grant to him to obtain mercy from the Lord in that day. And you know well in how many ways he has ministered to me at Ephesus.

## 2 Timothy 1 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Paulus Apostolus Jesu Christi per voluntatem Dei, secundum promissionem vitæ, quæ est in Christo Jesu,
2. Timotheo carissimo filio: gratia, misericordia, pax a Deo Patre, et Christo Jesu Domino nostro.
3. Gratias ago Deo, cui servio a progenitoribus in conscientia pura, quod sine intermissione habeam tui memoriam in orationibus meis, nocte ac die
4. desiderans te videre, memor lacrimarum tuarum, ut gaudio implear,
5. recordationem accipiens ejus fidei, quæ est in te non ficta, quæ et habitavit primum in avia tua Loide, et matre tua Eunice, certus sum autem quod et in te.
6. Propter quam causam admoneo te ut resuscites gratiam Dei, quæ est in te per impositionem manuum mearum.
7. Non enim dedit nobis Deus spiritum timoris: sed virtutis, et dilectionis, et sobrietatis.
8. Noli itaque erubescere testimonium Domini nostri, neque me vinctum ejus: sed collabora Evangelio secundum virtutem Dei:
9. qui nos liberavit, et vocavit vocatione sua sancta, non secundum opera nostra, sed secundum propositum suum, et gratiam, quæ data est nobis in Christo Jesu ante tempora sæcularia.
10. Manifestata est autem nunc per illuminationem Salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi, qui destruxit quidem mortem, illuminavit autem vitam, et incorruptionem per Evangelium:
11. in quo positus sum ego prædicator, et Apostolus, et magister gentium.
12. Ob quam causam etiam hæc patior, sed non confundor. Scio enim cui credidi, et certus sum quia potens est depositum meum servare in illum diem.
13. Formam habe sanorum verborum, quæ a me audisti in fide, et in dilectione in Christo Jesu.
14. Bonum depositum custodi per Spiritum Sanctum, qui habitat in nobis.
15. Scis hoc, quod aversi sunt a me omnes, qui in Asia sunt, ex quibus est Phigellus, et Hermogenes.
16. Det misericordiam Dominus Onesiphori domui: quia sæpe me refrigeravit, et catenam meam non erubuit:
17. sed cum Romam venisset, sollicite me quæsivit, et invenit.
18. Det illi Dominus invenire misericordiam a Domino in illa die. Et quanta Ephesi ministravit mihi, tu melius nosti.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 2220: The Duties of Family Members ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1556: The Three Degrees of the Sacrament of Holy Orders ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1577: Who Can Receive This Sacrament? ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2471: To Bear Witness to the Truth ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1021: The Particular Judgment ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 857: The Church Is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 10: “By the illumination” … That is, by the bright coming and appearing of our Saviour.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sat, Nov 21, 2026: Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary — Alleluia, See 2 Timothy 1:10
- Thu, Jan 21, 2027: St. Agnes, Virgin and Martyr — Alleluia, 2 Timothy 1:10
- Tue, Jan 26, 2027: Sts. Timothy and Titus, Bishops — First Reading, 2 Timothy 1:1-8
- Thu, Jun 3, 2027 (computed): St. Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs — Alleluia, See 2 Timothy 1:10

17 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).