2 Timothy 4:7

Paul's Charge To Timothy

⁶ For I am now ready to be sacrificed, and the time of my dissolution approaches. ⁷ I have struggled hard in the honourable contest, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith: ⁸ henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day: yet not to me only, but also to all who have loved his appearing.

Kept the Faith

Acts 20:24

Yet I make no account of any [suffering], nor regard my life as of any value to myself, farther than as I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord, to testify fully the Gospel of the grace of God.

1 Timothy 6:12

Strain every nerve in the noble conflict of faith, lay fast hold on eternal life, unto which also thou hast been called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

1 Timothy 1:18

This commandment, son Timothy, I give thee, according to the prophecies which were before delivered concerning thee, that by them thou mightest war a good warfare;

Revelation 3:8

I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it; because thou hast but little strength, yet hast thou kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

Luke 8:15

But that on the good ground are they who having heard the word, retain it in a heart excellent and good, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Luke 11:28

But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and observe it.

John 4:34

Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

John 17:6

I have made known thy name to the persons whom thou gavest me out of the world: for thee they had a being, and to me thou hast given them; and thy word have they kept.

Acts 13:25

But as John was finishing his course, he said, Whom do ye suppose me to be? I am not [the Messiah]. But, behold! he is coming after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.

1 Corinthians 9:24-27

Know ye not that they who run on the course, all run indeed, yet but one obtaineth the price? So run, that ye may obtain.

Philippians 3:13-14

Brethren, I count not myself to have overtaken it; but this one object I pursue, forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching out to those which are before,

1 Timothy 6:20

O Timothy, guard the sacred deposit, avoiding profane trifling talk, and antitheses of misnamed science:

2 Timothy 1:14

The glorious deposit committed to thy trust, guard by the Holy Ghost who dwelleth in us.

Hebrews 12:1-2

THEREFORE also seeing we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and that most easily besetting sin, let us run with patience the race lying before us,

Revelation 3:10

Because thou hast keep the word of my patience, I also will preserve thee from the hour of temptation, which is coming upon the whole habitable globe to try the dwellers upon earth.