1 Timothy 6:12

Timothy is to fight the good fight of faith and take hold of the eternal life to which he was called and once confessed. The Christian life is a determined contest toward the prize of eternal life.

Cross-references · 33

• 1 Pet 5:10And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.
• 1 Tim 1:18Timothy, my child, I entrust you with this command in keeping with the previous prophecies about you, so that by them you may fight the good fight,
• 1 Cor 9:25–26Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do it for a crown that is imperishable.
• 2 Tim 4:7I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
• Eph 6:10–18Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.
• Phil 3:12–14Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
• Rev 3:3Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you.
• 1 Tim 6:13I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who made the good confession in His testimony before Pontius Pilate:
• Col 3:15Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, for to this you were called as members of one body. And be thankful.
• 1 Jn 2:25And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.
• 2 Tim 1:9He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.
• Heb 6:18Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.
• 2 Cor 10:3–5For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.
• 1 Tim 6:19treasuring up for themselves a firm foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.
• Zech 10:5They will be like mighty men in battle, trampling the enemy in the mire of the streets. They will fight because the LORD is with them, and they will put the horsemen to shame.
• Rom 8:28–30And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
• Rom 10:9–10that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
• Deut 26:17–19Today you have proclaimed that the LORD is your God and that you will walk in His ways, keep His statutes and commandments and ordinances, and listen to His voice.
• 1 Th 2:12encouraging you, comforting you, and urging you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.
• Prov 3:18She is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and those who lay hold of her are blessed.
• Heb 3:14We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first.
• 2 Th 2:14To this He called you through our gospel, so that you may share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Ps 63:8My soul clings to You; Your right hand upholds me.
• 1 Pet 3:9Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.
• Deut 26:3to the priest who is serving at that time, and say to him, “I declare today to the LORD your God that I have entered the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.”
• Rom 9:23–24What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory—
• 1 Th 5:8–9But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.
• Luke 12:8–9I tell you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Man will also confess him before the angels of God.
• Heb 13:23Be aware that our brother Timothy has been released. If he arrives soon, I will come with him to see you.
• 2 Cor 9:13Because of the proof this ministry provides, the saints will glorify God for your obedient confession of the gospel of Christ, and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all the others.
• Isa 44:5One will say, ‘I belong to the LORD,’ another will call himself by the name of Jacob, and still another will write on his hand, ‘The LORD’s,’ and will take the name of Israel.”
• 2 Cor 6:7in truthful speech and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;
• Song 3:4I had just passed them when I found the one I love. I held him and would not let go until I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the chamber of the one who conceived me.

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