2 Timothy 1:7

American Standard Version (1901)

For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.

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  • Rom 8:15 : 15 For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
  • 1 John 4:18 : 18 There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love.
  • John 14:27 : 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
  • Acts 1:8 : 8 But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
  • Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
  • Zech 4:6 : 6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of Jehovah unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith Jehovah of hosts.
  • Prov 2:7 : 7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; [He is] a shield to them that walk in integrity;
  • Luke 10:19 : 19 Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall in any wise hurt you.
  • Heb 2:15 : 15 and might deliver all them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
  • Luke 24:49 : 49 And behold, I send forth the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city, until ye be clothed with power from on high.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:
  • Rom 5:5 : 5 and hope putteth not to shame; because the love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given unto us.
  • 1 Cor 2:4 : 4 And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
  • Ps 119:80 : 80 Let my heart be perfect in thy statutes, That I be not put to shame.
  • Acts 6:8 : 8 And Stephen, full of grace and power, wrought great wonders and signs among the people.
  • Col 1:8 : 8 who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
  • Acts 20:24 : 24 But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
  • Prov 8:14 : 14 Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge: I am understanding; I have might.
  • Mic 3:8 : 8 But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Jehovah, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
  • Luke 8:35 : 35 And they went out to see what had come to pass; and they came to Jesus, and found the man, from whom the demons were gone out, sitting, clothed and in his right mind, at the feet of Jesus: and they were afraid.
  • Acts 21:13 : 13 Then Paul answered, What do ye, weeping and breaking my heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
  • Acts 10:38 : 38 [ even] Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
  • Acts 26:25 : 25 But Paul saith, I am not mad, most excellent Festus; but speak forth words of truth and soberness.
  • Acts 9:22 : 22 But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews that dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.
  • Luke 15:17 : 17 But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger!
  • 2 Cor 5:13-14 : 13 For whether we are beside ourselves, it is unto God; or whether we are of sober mind, it is unto you. 14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;
  • Acts 26:11 : 11 And punishing them oftentimes in all the synagogues, I strove to make them blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto foreign cities.

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  • 8 Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but suffer hardship with the gospel according to the power of God;

  • 6 For which cause I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee through the laying on of my hands.

  • 12 But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us of God.

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    17 Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as he is, even so are we in this world.

    18 There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love.

  • 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves;

  • 5 how that our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and [in] much assurance; even as ye know what manner of men we showed ourselves toward you for your sake.

  • 3 seeing that his divine power hath granted unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that called us by his own glory and virtue;

  • 28 and in nothing affrighted by the adversaries: which is for them an evident token of perdition, but of your salvation, and that from God;

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    3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

    4 And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

    5 that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

  • 16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

  • 9 not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us.

  • 9 For God appointed us not into wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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    4 And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward:

    5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

    6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

  • 15 For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

  • 2 to the end that ye be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by epistle as from us, as that the day of the Lord is just at hand;

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

    14 That good thing which was committed unto [thee] guard through the Holy Spirit which dwelleth in us.

  • 6 So that with good courage we say, The Lord is my helper; I will not fear: What shall man do unto me?

  • 9 that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

  • 13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;

  • 15 And his affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

  • 20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

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    8 For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell [us] in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

    9 yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:

  • 4 (for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds),

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    7 For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

    8 Therefore he that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.

  • 7 (for we walk by faith, not by sight);

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    21 Now he that establisheth us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;

    22 who also sealed us, and gave [us] the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

  • 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, [there] is liberty.

  • 1 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

  • 6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he who is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

  • 5 For even when we were come into Macedonia our flesh had no relief, but [we were] afflicted on every side; without [were] fightings, within [were] fears.

  • 5 Now he that wrought us for this very thing is God, who gave unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

  • 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;

  • 3 seeing that ye seek a proof of Christ that speaketh in me; who to you-ward is not weak, but is powerful in you:

  • 16 For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

  • 13 hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

  • 29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.

  • 8 Wherefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to enjoin thee that which is befitting,

  • 10 For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down.

  • 1 This is now, beloved, the second epistle that I write unto you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by putting you in remembrance;

  • 14 and that most of the brethren in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.

  • 4 who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.