2 Timothy 4:17

Though people abandoned him, the Lord stood with Paul and strengthened him so the gospel could be fully proclaimed to the Gentiles. Christ's faithful presence sustains his servants when human help fails.

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• 1 Pet 5:8Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
• Phil 1:12–14Now 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;
• Ps 22:21Save me from the lion’s mouth! Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen, you have answered me.
• 1 Sam 17:37David said, “Yahweh who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.” Saul said to David, “Go! Yahweh will be with you.”
• Dan 6:22My 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 hurt.
• Acts 9:15But 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.
• Acts 18:9–10The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent;
• Acts 23:11The 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.”
• Ps 109:31For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.
• Heb 11:33who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
• Isa 41:10Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
• Jer 20:10–11For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.”
• 2 Pet 2:9the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;
• Matt 10:19But when they deliver you up, don’t be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.
• Jer 15:20–21I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall; and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you,” says Yahweh.
• Isa 41:14Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh, “and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
• Dan 6:27He delivers and rescues, and he works signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.
• Acts 27:23–24For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,
• Ps 37:39–40But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.
• Rom 16:25–26—
• 1 Tim 1:12And I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;
• 2 Cor 12:9He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
• 2 Tim 3:11persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.
• Luke 21:15for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.
• Prov 20:2The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.
• Prov 28:15As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.
• Jer 2:30“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
• Eph 3:8To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
• Acts 26:17–18delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,

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