2 Timothy 1:12 meaning and explanation
For 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.
2 Timothy 1:12, Berean Standard Bible
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Paul writes this from prison in Rome, near the end of his life, to Timothy, a younger leader he has mentored. He has just named his suffering and his appointment as preacher and apostle, and here he says that suffering does not make him ashamed, because his confidence rests in a person rather than in his circumstances.
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