8 "Therefore
do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner,
but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the
power of God, 9 who has saved us and 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 time
began, 10 but has now been revealed by the appearing
of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and brought life
and immortality to light through the gospel, 11
to which I was appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the
Gentiles. 12 For this reason I also suffer these
things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed
and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him
until that Day."