1:3 - I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of you in my prayers night and day;
Origen de Principiis Book II
, that "on these two commandments hang the law and the prophets? "For how shall that which is strange and foreign to God depend upon Him? And when Paul says, "I thank my God, whom I serve my spirit from my forefathers with pure conscience,"[43]Origen Against Celsus Book V
Let it be admitted, then, that there are amongst us some who deny that our God is the same as that of the Jews: nevertheless, on that account those are not to be blamed who prove from the same Scriptures that one and the same Deity is the God of the Jews and of the Gentiles alike, as Paul, too, distinctly says, who was a convert from Judaism to Christianity, "I thank my God, whom I serve from my forefathers with a pure conscience."[192]
1:5 - When I call to remembrance the sincere faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in you also.
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VII
Of Ephesus, Timotheus, ordained by Paul; and John, by me John. Of Smyrna, Aristo the first; after whom Strataeas the son of Lois;[196]
1:6 - Wherefore I put you in remembrance that you stir up the gift of God, which is in you by the putting on of my hands.
Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians
of the love of God towards man, and stirring up[13]
1:7 - For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV
Be not therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, or of me his prisoner," he writes to Timothy.[74]Tertullian Scorpiace
for he had said before: "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind."[105]
1:8 - Be not you therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be you partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
Tertullian Scorpiace
"Be not thou, therefore, ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner; "[104]
1:10 - But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has abolished death, and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
Epistle of Ignatius to the Philadelphians
but the Gospel is the perfection of immortality.[76]Origen Against Celsus Book III
and "by the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,"[186]
1:14 - That good thing which was committed unto you keep by the Holy Spirit which dwells in us.
Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics
and again: "That good thing which was committed unto thee keep."[268]Word and Revelation of Esdras
Then there came a voice to me: Come hither and die, Esdras, my beloved; give that which hath been entrusted to thee.[28]
1:15 - This you know, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics
that certain men, like Phygellus, and Hermogenes, and Philetus, and Hymenµus, deserted His apostle:[32]Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh
they will have to be excluded while they are with premature haste seizing that which is promised after this life; erring concerning the truth, no less than Phygellus and Hermogenes.[168]Tertullian De Fuga in Persecutione
For the apostle likewise delivered Phygellus and Hermogenes over to Satan that by chastening they might be taught not to blaspheme.[12]
1:16 - The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:
Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians
me, and "hath not been ashamed of my chain,"[24]Origen de Principiis Book III
on, or those who had fallen away, and had not repented of the licentiousness and impurity of which they had been guilty? And how can he bless those whom he praises as having done well, as he does the house of Onesiphorus in these words: "The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain: but, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me. The Lord grant to him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day."[225]
1:18 - The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, you know very well.
Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans
None of those things which ye have done to them shall be passed by without being reckoned unto you. "The Lord grant" to you "that ye may find mercy of the Lord in that day!"[71]Epistle of Ignatius to Hero, a Deacon of Antioch
Salute Cassian, my host, and his most serious-minded partner in life, and their very dear children, to whom may "God grant that they find mercy of the Lord in that day,"[30]Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh
Similarly, concerning Onesiphorus, does he also write to Timothy: "The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy in that day; "[160]Of the Journeyings of Philip the Apostle
And having prepared my body for burial in the sheets of paper, bind it tight with papyrus reeds, and bury it in the church; and pray for me[26]