2 Timothy 1:12

For which cause also I suffer these things; but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep for that day the deposit I have entrusted to him.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

In Context

11to which *I* have been appointed a herald and apostle and teacher of [the] nations.

13Have an outline of sound words, which [words] thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which [are] in Christ Jesus.

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Cross References

Psalms 25:2My God, I confide in thee; let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.

Psalms 56:9Then shall mine enemies return backward in the day when I call: this I know, for God is for me.

Isaiah 50:7But the Lord Jehovah will help me: therefore shall I not be confounded; therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

Nahum 1:7Jehovah is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.

Matthew 12:21and on his name shall [the] nations hope.

Luke 10:12I say to you that it shall be more tolerable for Sodom in that day than for that city.

Matthew Henry on 2 Timothy 1:7-15

Cautions and Exhortations; Ministerial Fidelity. ( a. d. 66.) 6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. 7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. 8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God; 9 Who hath saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according… Read the whole commentary →

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