TSK · 2 Timothy 1:7

May I be fully committed to your statutes, so that I might not be ashamed.

Counsel and sound wisdom belong to me; I possess understanding and might.

Therefore he told me,“This is the LORD’s message to Zerubbabel:‘Not by strength and not by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.”

Look, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions and on the full force of the enemy, and nothing will hurt you.

And look, I am sending you what my Father promised. But stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest parts of the earth.”

But Saul became more and more capable, and was causing consternation among the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Christ.

But I do not consider my life worth anything to myself, so that I may finish my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.

I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to force them to blaspheme. Because I was so furiously enraged at them, I went to persecute them even in foreign cities.

And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

My conversation and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

and set free those who were held in slavery all their lives by their fear of death.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears punishment has not been perfected in love.