2 Timothy 1 Bible study: Not ashamed

The letter opens, "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus," (1:1) (tap life) "to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord." (1:2) (tap mercy). It names one sender and one reader. These notes say nothing of Timothy, or of when or where the letter was written, beyond what the letter says. It goes on: "I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day" (1:3) "longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;" (1:4) "having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, in you also." (1:5) "For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands." (1:6) "For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control." (1:7) (tap power). The letter doesn't explain these words beyond what they say, and these notes don't either. They add nothing about Timothy from other books.

ἐπαισχύνομαιepaischynomaisay ep-ahee-SKHOO-nom-ahee

Strong's: "to feel shame for something". Thayer: "to be ashamed". "Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner" (1:8), "Yet I am not ashamed" (1:12), and "was not ashamed of my chain" (1:16): behind ashamed each time is this one verb, and 2 Timothy has it only in these three verses (in all eight editions TAGNT compares). The letter's other ashamed, "a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed" (2:15), is another word, anepaischyntos (G422), which Favor's 2 Timothy 2 studies. Favor's Mark 8 studies this verb in Jesus's words, and Favor's Romans 1 counts it in Romans.