Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God according to the  ¹promise of life, which is in Christ Jesus,

To Timothy, beloved child: Grace,  ¹mercy, peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

I thank God, whom I  ¹serve  ²from my forefathers in a  ³pure conscience, while unceasingly I have remembrance concerning you in my petitions night and day,

Longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;

Having been reminded of the unfeigned faith in you, which  ¹dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded dwells also in you.

For which cause I remind you to  ¹fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the  ²laying on of my hands.

For God has not given us a  ¹spirit of cowardice, but  ²of power and of love and of sobermindedness.

 ¹Therefore do  ²not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord nor of me His prisoner; but suffer evil with the  ³gospel  ⁴according to the power of God;

Who has saved us and  ¹called us with a holy calling, not according to our works but according to His own  ²purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus  ³before the times of the ages

But now has been  ¹manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who  ²nullified death and brought  ³life and  ⁴incorruption to light through the gospel,

For  ¹which I was appointed a  ²herald and an apostle and a teacher.

For which  ¹cause also I suffer these things; but I am  ²not ashamed, for I know  ³whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that He is able to guard  ⁴my deposit unto  ⁵that day.

Hold a  ¹pattern of the  ²healthy words that you have heard from me, in the  ³faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.

Guard the good  ¹deposit through the Holy Spirit who  ²dwells in us.

This you know, that all who are in  ¹Asia  ²turned away from me, of whom are  ³Phygelus and Hermogenes.

May the Lord grant mercy to the house of  ¹Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain;

But being in Rome, he sought me out diligently and found me.

May the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord in  ¹that day. And in how many things he served me in Ephesus, you know best.

Concerning the prophets:
My heart is broken within me;
All my bones fail.
I have become like a man who is drunk,
Even like a mighty man who is overcome by wine,
Because of Jehovah
And because of the words of His holiness.

For the land is full of adulterers;
For the land mourns because of the curse.
The pastures of the wilderness are dried up,
And the course they run is evil,
And their might is not right.

For both the prophet and the priest are profane;
Even in My house I have found their wickedness,
Declares Jehovah.

Therefore their way will become like slippery paths for them;
In the darkness they will be driven and will fall in it;
For I will bring evil on them
In the year of their punishment, declares Jehovah.

And in the prophets of Samaria
I have seen an offensive thing:
They prophesied by Baal
And led My people Israel astray.

And yet in the prophets of Jerusalem
I have seen a horrible thing:
The committing of adultery and walking in falsehood;
And they strengthen the hands of evildoers,
So that none turn
From their wickedness.
All of them have become to Me like Sodom
And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.

Therefore thus says Jehovah of hosts concerning the prophets:
I will feed them with wormwood
And give them poisonous water to drink,
For profaneness has gone forth
From the prophets of Jerusalem into all the land.

Thus says Jehovah of hosts,
Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you;
They are leading you to  ¹vanity;
They speak a vision of their own heart,
Not out of the mouth of Jehovah.

They say continually to those who despise Me,
Jehovah has spoken, You will have peace;
And to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart,
They say, Evil will not come upon you.

For who has stood in the  ¹council of Jehovah,
That he should perceive and hear His word?
Who has given heed to His word and listened?

Look, the storm wind of Jehovah! Wrath has gone forth,
Even a whirling tempest;
It will whirl down on the head of the wicked.

The anger of Jehovah will not turn back
Until He has executed and until He has accomplished
The purposes of His heart;
In the last days
You will understand it clearly.

I did not send the prophets,
But they ran forth;
I did not speak to them,
Yet they prophesied.

But if they had stood in My council
And had caused My people to hear My words,
They would have turned them from their evil way
And from the evil of their deeds.

Am I a God who is near, declares Jehovah,
And not a God who is far off?

Can a man hide himself in secret places,
So that I will not see him? declares Jehovah.
Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?
Declares Jehovah.

I have heard what the prophets say, who prophesy falsehood in My name, saying, I have dreamed; I have dreamed.

How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy falsehood and who are prophets of the deceit of their own heart,

Who think to cause My people to forget My name with their dreams which they tell, each one to his neighbor, even as their fathers forgot My name because of Baal?

The prophet who has a dream, let him tell the dream; and he with whom is My word, let him speak My word faithfully. What is the  ¹straw to the  ¹grain? declares Jehovah.

Is not My word thus — like  ¹fire, declares Jehovah, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

Therefore indeed, I am against the prophets, declares Jehovah, who  ¹steal My words, each one from his neighbor.

Indeed, I am against the prophets, declares Jehovah, who use their tongues and declare, He has declared.

Indeed, I am against those who prophesy false dreams, declares Jehovah, and who tell them and lead My people astray by their lies and by their recklessness, although I did not send them or command them; neither do they profit this people at all, declares Jehovah.

And when this people or the prophet or priest asks you, saying, What is the burden of Jehovah? then you shall say to them, What burden? I will even cast you off, declares Jehovah.

And as for the prophet and the priest and the people who say, The burden of Jehovah, I will punish that man and his household.

Thus you shall say every one to his neighbor and every one to his brother, What has Jehovah answered? or, What has Jehovah spoken?

And you shall mention no more the burden of Jehovah, for every man's word will be his own burden; for you have perverted the words of the living God, Jehovah of hosts, our God.

Thus you shall say to the prophet, What has Jehovah answered you? or, What has Jehovah spoken?

But if you say, The burden of Jehovah, therefore thus says Jehovah, Because you have said this word, The burden of Jehovah, and I have sent to you, saying, You shall not say, The burden of Jehovah,

Therefore, I will utterly forget you and cast away from My presence you and the city which I gave to you and to your fathers.

And I will bring upon you eternal reproach and eternal humiliation, which will not be forgotten.

Jehovah showed me, and there were two baskets of  ¹figs placed before the temple of Jehovah, after Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon had exiled Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, and the princes of Judah and the craftsmen and the smiths from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon.

One basket had very good figs, like first ripe figs, but the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten because of their rottenness.

And Jehovah said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs. The good figs are very good; the bad figs are very bad, which cannot be eaten because of their rottenness.

Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,

Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, Like these good figs, so I will regard those who are exiled of Judah, whom I have sent from this place to the land of the Chaldeans, for good.

And I will set My eyes upon them for good and will bring them back to this land and build them up and not tear them down, and I will plant them and not uproot them.

And I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am Jehovah; and they will be My people, and I will be their God; for they will return to Me with their whole heart.

And like the bad figs that cannot be eaten because of their rottenness, thus says Jehovah, so I will make Zedekiah, the king of Judah, and his princes and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land and  ¹those who dwell in the land of Egypt —

I will even make them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a  ¹proverb and a  ¹byword and a curse in all the places where I will drive them.

And I will send sword and famine and pestilence upon them until they are consumed from the land which I gave to them and to their fathers.