Paul’s deliverance “out of the mouth of the lion” resonates with Psalm 22’s plea for deliverance from the lion’s mouth. The verbal image is notable and contextually fitting, but 2 Timothy does not identify the Psalm as its source, so the echo remains probable rather than certain.

Acts says the Lord stood by Paul and promised further witness at Rome; 2 Timothy says the Lord stood with him and strengthened him so the proclamation might be fully made to the nations.

At Paul’s call the Lord says he will bear Christ’s name before Gentiles and suffer for that name; at the end of 2 Timothy Paul says the Lord strengthened him so the proclamation would be fully made and all the Gentiles might hear.

Stephen dies under hostile judgment while Saul is present, sees the Son of Man standing, and asks that the sin not be charged against his killers; decades later Paul faces judgment, asks that abandonment not be charged against others, and says the Lord stood with him.

The charge to preach before Christ the Judge and his kingdom in 4:1–5 is answered by Paul’s testimony in 4:14–18: the Lord stands with him for proclamation and will preserve him unto the heavenly kingdom.

Timothy is told to be strengthened (endynamoō) in grace in 2:1; near the letter’s end Paul says the Lord strengthened (endynamoō) him for proclamation in 4:17. The approved evidence supports this relationship while preserving the difference between direct quotation, canonical development, and interpretive inference.

Psalm 62 says the Lord renders to every person according to his work; 2 Timothy uses the same judgment principle when Paul entrusts Alexander’s wrongdoing to the Lord, who will reward him according to his works.