Where is it in the Bible?
2 Timothy 1:7
7For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.
In other translations
- ESV
- 7for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
- NLT
- 7For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.
- CSB
- 7For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but one of power, love, and sound judgment.
- KJV
- 7For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
The surrounding passage
2 Timothy 1:5–9, King James Version
5When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
6Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
7For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
8Be 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;
9Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
Context
Paul writes to Timothy from prison, recalling the sincere faith that lived first in Timothy's grandmother Lois and his mother Eunice, and now in him (1:5). He urges Timothy to rekindle the gift God gave him through the laying on of Paul's hands (1:6). The next verse calls him not to be ashamed of the testimony about the Lord or of Paul, the Lord's prisoner.
About the book of 2 Timothy
Paul’s farewell: “I have kept the faith.”
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