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Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partakeru of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;

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Col. 1:24• ²⁴who now rejoice in sufferings for you, and fill up what is wanting of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly, (Col. 1:24)

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ashamed.

2 Tim. 1:12• ¹²For which cause also I suffer these things; yet I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed; and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have entrusted against that day. (2 Tim. 1:12)

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Psa. 119:46• (Psa. 119:46)

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Isa. 51:7• (Isa. 51:7)

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Mark 8:38• ³⁸For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him shall the Son of man also be ashamed when he shall come in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. (Mark 8:38)

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Luke 9:26• ²⁶For whosoever shall have been ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and [in that] of the Father, and of the holy angels. (Luke 9:26)

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Acts 5:41• ⁴¹They therefore went their way from [the] presence of the council rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to be dishonoured for the Name. (Acts 5:41)

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Rom. 1:16• ¹⁶for I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is God's power unto salvation to everyone that believeth, both to Jew first and to Greek. (Rom. 1:16)

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Rom. 9:33• ³³even as it is written, “Behold I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offence; and he that believeth on him shall not be ashamed.” (Rom. 9:33)

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Eph. 3:13• ¹³Wherefore I entreat [you] not to faint at my tribulations for you which is your glory. (Eph. 3:13)

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1 Peter 4:14• ¹⁴If ye are reproached in Christ's name, blessed [are ye], because the [Spirit] of glory and the Spirit of God resteth upon you: [on their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified]. (1 Peter 4:14)

the testimony.

Psa. 19:7• (Psa. 19:7)

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Isa. 8:20• (Isa. 8:20)

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John 15:27• ²⁷and ye too testify, because ye are with me from [the] beginning. (John 15:27)

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John 19:35• ³⁵And he that hath seen hath borne witness, and his witness is true, and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye also may believe. (John 19:35)

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Eph. 4:17• ¹⁷This then I say and testify in [the] Lord that ye should no longer walk even as also the rest of the nations walk in vanity of their mind, (Eph. 4:17)

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1 Tim. 2:6• ⁶who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony in its own times, (1 Tim. 2:6)

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1 John 4:14• ¹⁴And we have beheld, and testify that the Father hath sent his Son as Saviour of the world. (1 John 4:14)

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1 John 5:11‑12• ¹¹And this is the witness that God gave to us life eternal, and this life is in his Son.
¹²He that hath the Son hath life; he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. (1 John 5:11‑12)

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Rev. 1:2• ²who testified the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ ( whatsoever things he saw. (Rev. 1:2)

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Rev. 12:11• ¹¹And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life unto death. (Rev. 12:11)

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Rev. 19:10• ¹⁰And I fell before his feet to worship him. And he saith to me, See {i}thou do it{/i} not: I am fellow-servant of thee and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. (Rev. 19:10)

his prisoner.

2 Tim. 1:16• ¹⁶The Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus; for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain; (2 Tim. 1:16)

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2 Tim. 2:9• ⁹in which I suffer unto bonds as an evil-doer; but the word of God is not bound. (2 Tim. 2:9)

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Eph. 3:1• ¹For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of the Christ Jesus for you nations, (Eph. 3:1)

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Eph. 4:1• ¹I exhort you therefore, I the prisoner in [the] Lord, that ye walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called, (Eph. 4:1)

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Phil. 1:7• ⁷even as it is righteous for me to think this of you all, because ye have me in your heart; and both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye are all fellow-partakers of my grace. (Phil. 1:7)

be thou.

2 Tim. 2:3,11‑12• ³Take thy share of suffering hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
¹¹Faithful [is] the word: for if we died together with [him], we shall also live together;
¹²if we endure, we shall also reign together; if we shall deny [him], he also will deny us; (2 Tim. 2:3,11‑12)

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2 Tim. 4:5• ⁵But be thou sober in all things, suffer hardship [evils], do an evangelist's work, fully perform thy ministry. (2 Tim. 4:5)

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Rom. 8:17‑18,36• ¹⁷and, if children, heirs also; heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; if at least we suffer together, that we may also together be glorified.
¹⁸For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time [are] not worthy of comparison with the glory about to be revealed in regard to us.
³⁶according as it is written, “For thy sake are we being put to death all the day long, we have been reckoned as sheep of slaughter.” (Rom. 8:17‑18,36)

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1 Cor. 4:9‑13• ⁹For, I think, b God set us the apostles last as devoted to death, because we became a spectacle to the world, to both angels and men:
¹⁰we, fools for Christ, but ye prudent in Christ; we weak, but ye strong; ye illustrious, but we disgraced.
¹¹Until the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked and are buffeted and are homeless wanderers,
¹²and we toil, working with our own hands; reviled, we bless, persecuted, we suffer;
¹³slandered, we beseech. We became as the world's scum, off-scouring of all, until now. (1 Cor. 4:9‑13)

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2 Cor. 11:23‑27• ²³Are they ministers of Christ? (Beside myself I speak) I above measure; in labours very abundantly, in prisons very abundantly, in stripes exceedingly, in deaths often.
²⁴From Jews five times I received forty [stripes] save one;
²⁵thrice was I beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
²⁶by wayfarings often, by dangers of rivers, by dangers of robbers, by dangers from countrymen, by dangers from Gentiles, by dangers in town, by dangers in desert, by dangers at sea, by dangers among false brethren, by toil and trouble;
²⁷in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. (2 Cor. 11:23‑27)

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Phil. 3:10• ¹⁰to know him, and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death, (Phil. 3:10)

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Col. 1:24• ²⁴who now rejoice in sufferings for you, and fill up what is wanting of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly, (Col. 1:24)

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1 Thess. 3:4• ⁴For even when we were with you we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it came to pass, and ye know. (1 Thess. 3:4)

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1 Peter 4:13‑15• ¹³but inasmuch as ye share in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice, that in the revelation of his glory also ye may rejoice exultingly.
¹⁴If ye are reproached in Christ's name, blessed [are ye], because the [Spirit] of glory and the Spirit of God resteth upon you: [on their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified].
¹⁵For let none of you suffer as murderer or thief or evil-doer, or as spy on another's matter; (1 Peter 4:13‑15)

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Rev. 1:9• ⁹I, John, your brother and joint-partaker in tribulation and the kingdom and patience in Christ [Jesus], was in the isle that is called Patmos, because of the word of God and [because of] the testimony of Jesus [Christ]. (Rev. 1:9)

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Rev. 12:11• ¹¹And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life unto death. (Rev. 12:11)

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2 Tim. 4:17• ¹⁷But the Lord stood by me and gave me power, that through me the proclamation might be fully made, and all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of a lion's mouth. (2 Tim. 4:17)

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Rom. 16:25• ²⁵Now to him that is able to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to [the] revelation of [the] mystery kept secret in everlasting times, (Rom. 16:25)

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2 Cor. 6:7• ⁷in [the] word of truth, in [the] power of God. Through the arms of righteousness on the right and left, (2 Cor. 6:7)

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2 Cor. 12:9‑10• ⁹and he hath said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for [my] power is perfected in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather boast in my weaknesses that the power of Christ may rest on me.
¹⁰Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in straits for Christ; for when I am weak, then am I strong. (2 Cor. 12:9‑10)

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Phil. 4:13• ¹³In all things I am strong in him that empowereth me. (Phil. 4:13)

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Col. 1:11• ¹¹in all power empowered according to the might of his glory, unto all endurance and long-suffering with joy; (Col. 1:11)

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1 Peter 1:5• ⁵that are being guarded by God's power through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in a last season. (1 Peter 1:5)

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Jude 24• ²⁴But to him that is able to keep you without stumbling, and to set you with exultation blameless before his glory; (Jude 24)

• It is a remarkable fact that, so early in the history of the Church, as once before indeed at Antioch when Paul withstood Peter to the face, the maintenance of the truth of God depended upon the faithfulness of one man, and he a captive. Courage, and such courage as God alone could give, was requisite at such a crisis. (“Exposition of 2 Timothy: 2 Timothy 1:8-11” by E. Dennett)

• “Suffer evil along with the gospel.” The gospel is in a way personified, and Timothy is urged to cast in his lot with it fully and entirely. (“Exposition of 2 Timothy: 2 Timothy 1:8-11” by E. Dennett)

• How precious to possess that which is eternal, that which is founded on the power and on the work of God Himself! (“2 Timothy 1” by J.N. Darby)

• the maintenance of the truth of God depended upon the faithfulness of one man, and he a captive (“2 Timothy 1:8-11”)

• to have been ashamed of Paul, being what he was, would have been to be ashamed of the testimony of the Lord. (“2 Timothy 1:8-11”)

• The gospel is in a way personified, and Timothy is urged to cast in his lot with it fully and entirely, at whatever cost, that the reproaches which might fall upon it might also be borne by him (“2 Timothy 1:8-11”)

• no human energy, no steadfastness of purpose, nothing short of divine power, will avail in the conflicts of service in the gospel. (“2 Timothy 1:8-11”)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Be not therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but suffer evil along with the glad tidingsg, according to the power of God;

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This personification of the gospel is very common with Paul.

W. Kelly Translation

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

WK Translation Notes

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This truer force appears in the RV, "suffer hardship with the gospel."