"For God did not give us a spirit of fear,
but He has given us a spirit of power
and of love, and of calm and balanced mind,
and discipline and self-control.
Do not be ashamed then,
to testify to and for our Lord,
but take your share of suffering
to which the preaching of the Gospel
may expose you, and do it,
in the power of God.
For it is He
Who delivered and saved us
and called us with a calling in
itself holy and leading to holiness,
to a life of consecration,
a vocation of holiness;
He did it not because
of anything of merit
that we have done,
but because of and to further
His own purpose and grace
which was given to us
in Christ Jesus
before the world began.
It is that purpose and grace
which He now has made known
and has fully disclosed
and made real to us
through the appearing of
our Savior Christ Jesus,
Who annulled death
and made it no effect
and brought life and immortality,
immunity from eternal death,
to light through the Gospel.
11 Timothy:1 7-10
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