2 Timothy 1:7

7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Ver. 7. The spirit of fear ] δειλειας , called elsewhere the spirit of bondage, δουλειας , Romans 8:15 . The law will convince the judgment; but it is the gospel that convinceth the lust and the affection.

Of power and of a sound mind ] These two fitly stand together. Sin unrepented of, lies rotting at the heart, and by rotting weakeneth it, as a rotten rag hath no strength.