2 Timothy 1:8-10

v8: Sharing in suffering for the gospel means "not only [sympathising] with those who suffer for it, but also [being] ready to suffer with them and suffer like them."  We can trust that when we are called to suffer afflictions for the gospel's sake, God will "enable us to bear them."

v9: The call to suffer for the gospel is the call "to suffer for what we hope to be saved by." This salvation that comes to us in the gospel is undeserved and is a gracious gift from God.

v10: Our Lord Jesus has defeated death and now shows us the way to life and immortality. "Death, which was once an enemy, has become a friend; it is the gate by which we pass out of this troublesome, sinful world into a world of perfect peace and purity; its power is broken, for death does not triumph over those who believe the Gospel; they triumph over it."