“I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;”
I am grateful to God, whom I serve with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did, remembering you constantly in my prayers — Paul's gratitude for Timothy echoes ancestral piety (hoi progenoi): he serves with syneidēsis katharō (clean conscience) and maintains unceasing prayer (adialeipton mnēian) for his spiritual son. Continuity of faith spans generations.
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