2 Timothy 1:7

World English Bible (2000)

For God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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  • Rom 8:15 : 15 For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"
  • 1 John 4:18 : 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.
  • John 14:27 : 27 Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don't let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
  • Acts 1:8 : 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth."
  • Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
  • Zech 4:6 : 6 Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, "This is the word of Yahweh to Zerubbabel, saying, 'Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says Yahweh of Armies.
  • Prov 2:7 : 7 He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;
  • Luke 10:19 : 19 Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.
  • Heb 2:15 : 15 and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
  • Luke 24:49 : 49 Behold, I send forth the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high."
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
  • Rom 5:5 : 5 and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
  • 1 Cor 2:4 : 4 My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
  • Ps 119:80 : 80 Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed. KAF
  • Acts 6:8 : 8 Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.
  • Col 1:8 : 8 who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.
  • Acts 20:24 : 24 But these things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.
  • Prov 8:14 : 14 Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.
  • Mic 3:8 : 8 But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Yahweh, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.
  • Luke 8:35 : 35 People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus' feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
  • Acts 21:13 : 13 Then Paul answered, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, 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 who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
  • Acts 26:25 : 25 But he said, "I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.
  • Acts 9:22 : 22 But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived 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 to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!
  • 2 Cor 5:13-14 : 13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you. 14 For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
  • Acts 26:11 : 11 Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

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  • 8 Therefore don't be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

  • 6 For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you 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 by God.

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    17 In this love has been made perfect among 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 casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

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

  • 5 and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

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

  • 28 and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

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

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

    5 that your faith wouldn't 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 don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

  • 9 For God didn't appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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    4 Such confidence we have through Christ toward God;

    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 servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

  • 15 For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"

  • 2 not to be quickly shaken in your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, saying that the day of Christ had come.

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

    14 That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

  • 6 So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?"

  • 9 that I may not seem as if I desire to 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 His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.

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

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    8 For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

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

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

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

    8 Therefore he who rejects this doesn't reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

  • 7 for we walk by faith, not by sight.

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    21 Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;

    22 who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment 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 who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn't listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

  • 5 For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.

  • 5 Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

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

  • 3 seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you.

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

  • 13 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

  • 29 Then I said to you, "Don't dread, neither be afraid of them.

  • 8 Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

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

  • 1 This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you;

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

  • 4 who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.