7. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of virtue, and of love, and of self-restraint.
8. And so, do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, his prisoner. Instead, collaborate with the Gospel in accord with the virtue of God,
9. who has freed us and has called us to his holy vocation, 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.
10. And this has now been made manifest by the illumination of our Savior Jesus Christ, who certainly has destroyed death, and who has also illuminated life and incorruption through the Gospel.
11. Of this Gospel, I have been appointed a preacher, and an Apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.