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 5:10But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
• 1 Tim 1:18This instruction I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to you, that by them you may wage the good warfare;
• 1 Cor 9:25–26Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
• 2 Tim 4:7I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
• Eph 6:10–18Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.
• Phil 3:12–14Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
• Rev 3:3Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.
• 1 Tim 6:13I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,
• Col 3:15And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.
• 1 Jn 2:25This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.
• 2 Tim 1:9who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
• Heb 6:18that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
• 2 Cor 10:3–5For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;
• 1 Tim 6:19laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.
• Zech 10:5They shall be as mighty men, treading down muddy streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them; and the riders on horses will be confounded.
• Rom 8:28–30We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
• Rom 10:9–10that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
• Deut 26:17–19You have declared today that Yahweh is your God, and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice.
• 1 Th 2:12to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
• Prov 3:18She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.
• Heb 3:14For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:
• 2 Th 2:14to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Ps 63:8My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.
• 1 Pet 3:9not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.
• Deut 26:3You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, “I profess today to Yahweh your God, that I have come to the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us.”
• Rom 9:23–24and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,
• 1 Th 5:8–9But let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
• Luke 12:8–9“I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, him will the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God;
• Heb 13:23Know that our brother Timothy has been freed, with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.
• 2 Cor 9:13seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all;
• Isa 44:5One will say, ‘I am Yahweh’s;’ and another will be called by the name of Jacob; and another will write with his hand ‘to Yahweh,’ and honor the name of Israel.”
• 2 Cor 6:7in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
• Song 3:4I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.

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