Text -- 2 Timothy 1:7 (NET)

1:7 For God did not give us a Spirit of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 2Ti 1:7

¹ tn Or “a spirit,” denoting the human personality under the Spirit’s influence as in 1 Cor 4:21; Gal 6:1; 1 Pet 3:4. But the reference to the Holy Spirit at the end of this section (1:14) makes it likely that it begins this way also, so that the Holy Spirit is the referent.