“for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.”
Paul wrote this to Timothy from prison — likely his final imprisonment in Rome, knowing execution was near. Timothy, by Paul's accounts, was a man prone to anxiety and self-doubt, someone who needed to be reminded of what he had been given.
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