2 Timothy 1:7-9

7For 1God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and of love, and of wise discretion.

8Be not therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but suffer evil along with the glad tidings, according to the power of 2God;

9who has saved us, and has called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to [his] own purpose and grace, which [was] given to us in Christ Jesus before [the] ages of time,