2 TIMOTHY 1:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For 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.”
For this reason I suffer as I am suffering; but I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard my deposit until that day — Paul's suffering (paschō) does not induce shame; his conviction (peithomai) rests on intimate knowledge (ginōskō) of Christ and confidence in his faithfulness (phylassein tēn parathēkēn). Trust transcends circumstance.
Church Fathers on 2 Timothy 1:12
“I am not ashamed,” he says. For are chains, are sufferings, a matter for shame? Be not then ashamed! You see how he illustrates his teaching by his works. “These things,” he says, “I suffer”: I am cast into prison, I am banished; “For I know Whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed to Him against That Day.” What is “that which is committed”? The faith, the preaching of the Gospel. He, who committed this to him, he says, will…
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