2 Timothy 4:7

Paul's Charge To Timothy

⁶ My life is already being poured out, and the time has come for my departure. ⁷ I have had a part in the great contest, I have run my race, I have preserved my faith. ⁸ Now the crown of uprightness awaits me, which the Lord, the upright judge, will award me on that Day, and not only me but also all who have loved and hoped for his appearing.

Kept the Faith

Acts 20:24

But my life does not matter, if I can only finish my race and do the service intrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of declaring the good news of God's favor.

1 Timothy 6:12

Enter the great contest of faith! Take hold of eternal life, to which God called you, when before many witnesses you made the great profession of faith.

1 Timothy 1:18

These are the instructions that I intrust to you, my son Timothy, and they are in accordance with the predictions made long ago about you. Fight the good fight with their aid,

Revelation 3:8

I know what you are doing. See! I have put before you an open door that no one can close. I know that you have little strength, but you have obeyed my message and you have not disowned my name.

Luke 8:15

But the seed in the good soil means those who listen to the message and keep it in good, true hearts, and yield unfailingly.

Luke 11:28

But he said, "You might better say, 'Blessed are those who hear God's message and observe it!' "

John 4:34

Jesus said to them, "My food is doing the will of him who has sent me, and finishing his work.

John 17:6

"I have revealed your real self to the men you gave me from the world. They were yours and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your message.

Acts 13:25

Toward the end of his career, John said, 'What do you suppose that I am? I am not he! No! Someone is coming after me, the shoes on whose feet I am not fit to untie!'

1 Corinthians 9:24-27

Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one wins the prize? That is the way you must run, so as to win.

Philippians 3:13-14

Brothers, I do not consider that I have captured it yet, only, forgetting what is behind me, and straining toward what lies ahead,

1 Timothy 6:20

Timothy, guard what has been intrusted to you. Keep away from the worldly, empty phrases and contradictions of what they falsely call knowledge,

2 Timothy 1:14

Guard that splendid trust through the holy Spirit that lives in our hearts.

Hebrews 12:1-2

Therefore, let us too, with such a crowd of witnesses about us, throw off every impediment and the entanglement of sin, and run with determination the race for which we are entered,

Revelation 3:10

Because you have kept in mind the message of what I endured, I also will keep you safe in the time of testing that is going to come upon the whole world, to test the inhabitants of the earth.