2 Timothy 2:9

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in his Father’s glory, with the holy angels.”

But the word of God grew and multiplied.

So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

Save me from the lion’s mouth! Yes, you have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”

Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

Brothers, pray for us.

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.

But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.

Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up.”

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.

“For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed,

When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning God’s Kingdom and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

“Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching God’s Kingdom, will see my face no more.

The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

This greeting is by me, Paul, with my own hand.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

which some profess, and thus have wandered from the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus.

The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.

yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

preaching God’s Kingdom, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.

It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News,

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,

Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you,

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.

Moreover Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still locked up in the court of the guard, saying,

Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am restricted. I can’t go into Yahweh’s house.

Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard. They gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

Now Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the guard, saying,

Then Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,

and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

The word of God increased and the number of the disciples greatly multiplied in Jerusalem. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,

Coming to us and taking Paul’s belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy Spirit says: ‘So the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’ ”

Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.

For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ,

The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.