2 Timothy 1:8 Cross References - Goodspeed

⁸ So you must not be ashamed to testify to our Lord, nor be ashamed of me who am in prison for his sake, but join with me in suffering for the good news, through the power of God.

³⁸ For if anyone is ashamed of me and my teachings in this unfaithful and sinful age, then the Son of Man will be ashamed of him, when he comes back in his Father's glory, with the holy angels."

²⁶ For if anyone is ashamed of me and my teaching the Son of Man will be ashamed of him, when he comes with all the glory of his Father and of the holy angels.

²⁷ and you must bear testimony too, because you have been with me from the first.

³⁵ The man who saw it testifies to it—his testimony is true; he knows that he is telling the truth—to lead you also to believe.

⁴¹ So they went out from before the council, glad that they had been thought worthy to bear disgrace for the sake of Jesus,

¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the good news, for it is God's power for the salvation of everyone who has faith, of the Jew first and then of the Greek.

¹⁷ and if children, heirs also; heirs of God, and fellow-heirs with Christ, if we really share his sufferings in order to share his glory too. ¹⁸ For I consider what we suffer now not to be compared with the glory that is to burst upon us.

³⁶ As the Scripture says, "For your sake we are being put to death all day long, We are treated like sheep to be slaughtered."

³³ as the Scripture says, "See, I will put a stone on Zion to make people stumble, and a rock to trip over, But no one who has faith in it will be disappointed."

²⁵ To him who can make you strong by the good news I bring and the preaching about Jesus Christ, through the disclosure of the secret kept back for long ages but now revealed,

⁶ So your experience has confirmed the testimony that I bore to Christ,

⁹ For it seems to me, God has exhibited us apostles at the very end of the procession, like the men condemned to die in the arena. For we have become a spectacle to the whole universe, angels as well as men. ¹⁰ We are made fools of, for the sake of Christ, while you are men of sense, through being united with him. We are weak, you are strong. You are distinguished, we are despised. ¹¹ To this day we have gone hungry, thirsty, and ill-clad; we have had rough usage, we have had no home, ¹² we have worked with our hands for a living. When people abuse us, we bless them, when they persecute us, we put up with it, ¹³ when they slander us, we try to conciliate them. We have come to be like the scum of the earth, the dregs of the world, and we are so now.

⁷ the truth of my teaching, and the power of God; with the weapons of uprightness for the right hand and the left,

²³ If they are Christian workers—I am talking like a madman!—I am a better one! with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, vastly worse beatings, and in frequent danger of death. ²⁴ Five times I have been given one less than forty lashes, by the Jews. ²⁵ I have been beaten three times by the Romans, I have been stoned once, I have been shipwrecked three times, a night and a day I have been adrift at sea; ²⁶ with my frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from the heathen, danger in the city, danger in the desert, danger at sea, danger from false brothers, ²⁷ through toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, often without food, and exposed to cold.

⁹ and he said to me, "My favor is enough for you, for only where there is weakness is perfect strength developed." So I am perfectly willing to boast of all my weakness, so that the strength of Christ may shelter me. ¹⁰ That is why I am pleased with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties, when they are endured for Christ's sake, for it is when I am weak that I am strong.

¹ This is why I, Paul, whom Jesus the Christ has made a prisoner for the sake of you heathen—

¹³ So I ask that what I am having to suffer for your sake may not make me lose heart, for it does you honor.

¹ So I, the prisoner for the Lord's sake, appeal to you to live lives worthy of the summons you have received;

¹⁷ So what I mean and insist upon in the Lord's name is this: You must no longer live like the heathen, with their frivolity of mind and darkened understanding.

⁷ And I have a right to feel in this way about you all, because both when I am in prison and when I am defending and vindicating our right to preach the good news, I have you in my heart as all sharing that privilege with me.

¹⁰ I want to know him in the power of resurrection, and to share his sufferings and even his death,

¹³ I can do anything through him who gives me strength.

¹¹ Then, so mighty is his majesty, he will nerve you perfectly with strength for the cheerful exercise of endurance and forbearance in every situation,

²⁴ At present I am glad to be suffering in your interest, and I am making up in my own person what is lacking in Christ's sufferings for the church, which is his body.

⁴ for when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were going to have trouble, and it came true, as you know.

⁶ who gave himself as a ransom for all men. This is what was testified to at the proper times,

¹² This is why I am suffering as I am, but I am not ashamed of it, for I know whom I have trusted and I am sure that he is able to guard what I have intrusted to him for that Day.

¹⁶ May the Lord show mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often cheered me and was not ashamed of my being in prison.

³ Share my hardships like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

⁹ for the sake of which I even suffer imprisonment as a criminal. But God's message is not imprisoned!

¹¹ How true those words are! "If we have died with him, we will live with him! ¹² If we endure, we will reign with him! If we disown him, he will also disown us!

⁵ But you must always be composed; do not shrink from hardship; do your work as a missionary, and your whole duty as a minister.

¹⁷ But the Lord stood by me, and gave me strength, so that I might make a full presentation of the message and let all the heathen hear it. So I was saved from the jaws of the lion.

⁵ and you by God's power are being protected through faith to receive a salvation that is now ready to be disclosed at the last time.

¹³ but be glad that you are in a measure sharing the sufferings of the Christ, so that when his glory is revealed you may be triumphantly happy. ¹⁴ If you are being abused for the sake of Christ, you are blessed, because the glorious Spirit of God is resting upon you. ¹⁵ For no one of you must suffer as a murderer or thief or criminal or revolutionist,

¹⁴ We have seen and can testify that the Father has sent the Son to be Savior of the world.

¹¹ And that testimony is that God has given us eternal life, and that this life is found in his Son. ¹² Whoever has the Son has life; whoever has not the Son has not life.

²⁴ Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to make you stand in his presence irreproachable and triumphant—

² who testifies to what he saw—to the message of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

⁹ I, John, your brother and companion in the distress, the kingdom, and the endurance that Jesus brings, found myself on the island called Patmos, for uttering God's message and testifying to Jesus.

¹¹ They have conquered him because of the Lamb's blood, and the message to which they bore testimony, for they did not cling to life even in the face of death.

¹⁰ I fell at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, "You must not do that. I am only a fellow-slave of yours and of your brothers who have accepted the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is what inspires prophecy."