2 Timothy 1:8

Paul charges Timothy not to be ashamed of the gospel or of Paul's imprisonment, but to share in suffering for the gospel by God's power. Faithfulness may cost suffering, but God supplies strength.

Cross-references · 40

• Rom 1:16I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.
• Mark 8:38If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in His Father’s glory with the holy angels.”
• 1 Pet 4:13–15But rejoice that you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed at the revelation of His glory.
• 2 Tim 4:5But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
• Rev 12:11They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.
• 2 Tim 2:9for which I suffer to the extent of being chained like a criminal. But the word of God cannot be chained!
• 2 Tim 1:12For this reason, even though I suffer as I do, I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him for that day.
• Eph 3:1For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles...
• Luke 9:26If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes in His glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
• Phil 3:10I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to Him in His death,
• 2 Tim 1:16May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he has often refreshed me and was unashamed of my chains.
• 2 Cor 12:9–10But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.
• Eph 4:1As a prisoner in the Lord, then, I urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling you have received:
• Rev 1:9I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and kingdom and perseverance that are in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God and my testimony about Jesus.
• 1 Th 3:4Indeed, when we were with you, we kept warning you that we would suffer persecution; and as you know, it has come to pass.
• 2 Tim 2:3Join me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
• 1 Jn 5:11–12And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
• Rom 16:25Now to Him who is able to strengthen you by my gospel and by the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery concealed for ages past
• Phil 1:7It is right for me to feel this way about all of you, since I have you in my heart. For in my chains and in my defense and confirmation of the gospel, you are all partners in grace with me.
• 1 Pet 1:5who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
• Eph 3:13So I ask you not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.
• Jude 1:24Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—
• 2 Tim 2:11–12This is a trustworthy saying: If we died with Him, we will also live with Him;
• Acts 5:41The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name.
• Rom 9:33as it is written: “See, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”
• 1 Jn 4:14And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world.
• Phil 4:13I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.
• 2 Tim 4:17But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.
• John 19:35The one who saw it has testified to this, and his testimony is true. He knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe.
• Rev 1:2who testifies to everything he saw. This is the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
• Rom 8:17–18And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.
• 2 Cor 11:23–27Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.
• 1 Cor 1:6because our testimony about Christ was confirmed in you.
• Ps 119:46I will speak of Your testimonies before kings, and I will not be ashamed.
• Rev 19:10So I fell at his feet to worship him. But he told me, “Do not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who rely on the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”
• Eph 4:17So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
• John 15:27And you also must testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning.
• Col 1:24Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions for the sake of His body, which is the church.
• 2 Cor 6:7in truthful speech and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;
• Ps 19:7The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.

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