2 Timothy 1:9

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2 Timothy 1:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

8 So do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, or of me, His prisoner. Instead, join me in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.

9 He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.

10 And now He has revealed this grace through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has abolished death and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the gospel,

11 to which I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher.

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made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!

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including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?

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Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.

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But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do,

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for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”

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But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

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How is it to your credit if you are beaten for doing wrong and you endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God.

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For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps:

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Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

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Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand,

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In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.

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not by works, so that no one can boast.

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At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.

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Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.

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that have been known for ages.’

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according to the eternal purpose that He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.

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And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was slain.

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The beast that you saw—it was, and now is no more, but is about to come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. And those who dwell on the earth whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet will be.