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Known by many as Saint Timothy, he was born in Lystra (modern-day Turkey) to a Greek father and Jewish mother around AD 17 to AD 28. Timothy is thought to have been around 18 to 21 years of age when he joined the Apostle Paul on his second missionary journey. He became a trusted missionary and close friend of the Apostle Paul. Paul viewed Timothy as a spiritual son, eventually appointing him to lead the church in Ephesus. Paul wrote two pastoral letters to Timothy, offering leadership guidance and personal encouragement. The First Letter to Timothy focuses on church order.

As one of the most influential and prolific writers of the New Testament, the Apostle Paul wrote 13 letters to various churches and individuals. In them, he tackles doctrine, ethics, and practices relevant to his readers then and to us now. They are valuable sources of historical and theological information, and powerful expressions of Paul’s faith and passion for the gospel of Jesus Christ to change lives, as he himself and millions of others have now experienced.

The Letter to the Hebrews, later to become better known as The Book of Hebrews, from the Apostle Paul (formerly known as Saul of Tarsus). In this classic Letter, Paul demonstrates the end of the old Jewish system of sacrifices, since Jesus the Christ had become the Sacrifice for all and had taken a position at the right hand of the Throne of God, becoming a Heavenly High Priest at his ascension.

The Revised Geneva Translation is a 21st Century update of the very first widely-distributed version of the Holy Bible in English, The Geneva Bible. Just as in all preceding centuries, Biblical text in the 1500’s was meant to be heard and seen, as much as read, because so many of those who received it were illiterate (especially Gentiles) and needed to memorize it and speak it back to each other often in order to facilitate meditation.