2 Timothy 1:8

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Summary

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;

Ashamed

1 Peter 4:14

His prisoner

Philippians 1:7

Be thou

According

Bible References

Ashamed

and this is why I am suffering. Still, I am not ashamed of it; I know whom I have trusted and I am certain he is able to keep what I have put into his hands till the great Day.

Whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this disloyal and sinful generation, the Son of man will be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

For whoever is ashamed of me and my words, of him will the Son of man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy of suffering dishonour for the sake of the Name;

For I am proud of the gospel; it is God's saving power for everyone who has faith, for the Jew first and for the Greek as well.

So I beg of you not to lose heart over what I am suffering on your behalf; my sufferings are an honour to you.

If you are denounced for the sake of Christ, you are blessed; for then the Spirit of glory and power, the Spirit of God himself, is resting on you.

His prisoner

May the Lord show favour to the household of Onesiphorus, for many a time he braced me up; he was not ashamed of my imprisonment ??17 no, he made eager search for me when he reached Rome, and he found me

for which I have to suffer imprisonment as if I were a criminal. (But there is no prison for the word of God.)

For this reason I Paul, I whom Jesus has made a prisoner for the sake of you Gentiles ??2 for surely you have heard how the grace of God which was vouchsafed me in your interests has ordered it,

As the Lord's prisoner, then, I beg of you to live a life worthy of your calling,

It is only natural for me to be thinking of you all in this way, for alike in my prison and as I defend and vindicate the gospel, I bear in mind how you all share with me in the grace divine.

Be thou

Join the ranks of those who bear suffering, like a loyal soldier of Christ Jesus.

Whatever happens, be self-possessed, flinch from no suffering, do your work as an evangelist, and discharge all your duties as a minister.

and if children, heirs as well, heirs of God, heirs along with Christ ??for we share his sufferings in order to share his glory.

For it seems to me that God means us apostles to come in at the very end, like the doomed gladiators in the arena! We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men!

Ministers of Christ? yes perhaps, but not as much as I am (I am mad to talk like this!), with all my labours, with all my lashes, with all my time in prison ??a record longer far than theirs. I have been often at the point of death;

I would know him in the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, with my nature transformed to die as he died,

I am suffering now on your behalf, but I rejoice in that; I would make up the full sum of all that Christ has to suffer in my person on behalf of the church, his Body;

for we told you beforehand, when we were with you, that "we Christians are to have trouble" ??and, as you know, it has been so.)

You are sharing what Christ suffered; so rejoice in it, that you may also rejoice and exult when his glory is revealed.

I John, your brother and your companion in the distress and realm and patient endurance which Jesus brings, found myself in the island called Patmos, for adhering to God's word and the testimony of Jesus.

But they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they had to die for it, but they did not cling to life.

According

But the Lord supported me and gave me strength to make a full statement of the gospel and let all the heathen hear it. I was rescued from the jaws of the lion.

[Now to Him who can strengthen you by my gospel, by the preaching of Jesus Christ, by revealing the secret purpose which after the silence of long ages

true words, the power of God; with the weapons of integrity for attack or for defence,

but he told me, "It is enough for you to have my grace: it is in weakness that [my] power is fully felt." So I am proud to boast of all my weakness, and thus to have the power of Christ resting on my life.

In him who strengthens me I am able for anything.

May his glorious might nerve you with full power to endure and to be patient cheerfully, whatever comes,

and the power of God protects you by faith till you do inherit the salvation which is all ready to be revealed at the last hour.

Now to him who is able to keep you from slipping and to make you stand unblemished and exultant before his glory ??25 to the only God, our saviour through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and for all time: Amen.