12For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless 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 unto him against that day.
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Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-14)Here is an exhortation and excitation of Timothy to his duty (2 Tim. 1:6): I put thee in remembrance . The best men need remembrancers; what we know we should be reminded of. 2 Pet. 3:1; I write this, to stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance . I. He exhorts him to stir up the gift of God that was in him . Stir it up as fire under the embers. It is meant of all the gifts and graces the God…
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