6. Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God, which is in you by the laying on of my hands.
7. For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and love, and self-control.
8. So do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, His prisoner. But share in the sufferings of the gospel by the power of God,
9. who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not by our works, but by His own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
10. but is now revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,
11. for which I was appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
12. For these things I suffer, but 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 to Him until that Day.