5. I recall the genuine faithfulness within you, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am sure it is within you as well.
6. For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
7. For God has not given us a spirit of timidity but of power and love and self-discipline.
8. Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord or of me His prisoner, but share in suffering for the Good News according to the power of God.