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

⁸But you shall receive the power of the Holy Spirit, passing over you, and you shall be witnesses for me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the ends of the earth.”

¹³Everything is possible in him who has strengthened me.

¹⁹Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and upon all the powers of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.

¹⁰Concerning the rest, brothers, be strengthened in the Lord, by the power of his virtue.

²⁰For the kingdom of God is not in words, but in virtue.

²⁰Now to him who is able to do all things, more abundantly than we could ever ask or understand, by means of the virtue which is at work in us:

²⁹It is he who gives strength to the weary, and it is he who increases fortitude and strength in those who are failing. ³⁰Servants will struggle and fail, and young men will fall into infirmity. ³¹But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will take up wings like eagles. They will run and not struggle. They will walk and not tire.

⁹And he said to me: “My grace is sufficient for you. For virtue is perfected in weakness.” And so, willingly shall I glory in my weaknesses, so that the virtue of Christ may live within me.

¹⁴Truly, God has raised up the Lord, and he will raise us up by his power.

¹¹being strengthened in every virtue, in accord with the power of his glory, with all patience and longsuffering, with joy,

³in the same manner that all things which are for life and piety have been given to us by his Divine virtue, through the plan of him who has called us to our own glory and virtue.