Timothy 1:7 ►

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

 all cowardice, all dread of danger, all shrinking from doing one's duty for fear of man's displeasure, proceeds not from the Spirit of God.

A sound mind is a stedfast mind, a mind that sees the bigger picture and has self discipline composure of spirit, that nothing shall deter us from the discharge of our duty; and the term sound mind, opposed to a meak and sickly mind, staggering at every danger,