Therefore be not thou ashamed — When fear is banished, evil shame also flees away. Of the testimony of our Lord — The gospel, and of testifying the truth of it to all men. Nor of me — The cause of the servants of God doing his work, cannot be separated from the cause of God himself. But be thou partaker of the afflictions — Which I endure for the gospel's sake. According to the power of God — This which overcomes all things is nervously described in the two next verses.
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2 Timothy 1:8
8 Be 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;