2 Timothy 1:12

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

World English Bible Classic

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

11For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

13Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

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Cross References

Psalms 25:2My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.

Psalms 56:9Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this: that God is for me.

Isaiah 50:7For the Lord GOD will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I won’t be disappointed.

Nahum 1:7The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

Matthew 12:21In his name, the nations will hope.”

Luke 10:12I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom 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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