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 the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
• 1 Tim 1:18This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;
• 1 Cor 9:25–26And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
• 2 Tim 4:7I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
• Eph 6:10–18Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
• Phil 3:12–14Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
• Rev 3:3Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
• 1 Tim 6:13I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;
• Col 3:15And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
• 1 Jn 2:25And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
• 2 Tim 1:9Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
• Heb 6:18That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
• 2 Cor 10:3–5For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
• 1 Tim 6:19Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
• Zech 10:5And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.
• Rom 8:28–30And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
• Rom 10:9–10That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
• Deut 26:17–19Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:
• 1 Th 2:12That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
• Prov 3:18She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
• Heb 3:14For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
• 2 Th 2:14Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Ps 63:8My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
• 1 Pet 3:9Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
• Deut 26:3And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us.
• Rom 9:23–24And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
• 1 Th 5:8–9But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
• Luke 12:8–9Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God:
• Heb 13:23Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.
• 2 Cor 9:13Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;
• Isa 44:5One shall say, I am the LORD’s; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
• 2 Cor 6:7By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
• Song 3:4It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

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