2 Timothy 4:7

Paul's Charge To Timothy

⁶ For I am already poured out, and the time of my deliverance has been fixed. ⁷ I have contended earnestly the good contest, I have completed the course, I have kept the faith: ⁸ As to the rest, the crown of justice is laid up for me, which the Lord will assign to me in that day, the just judge: and not only to me, but also to all them having loved his appearance.

Kept the Faith

Acts 20:24

But the word of none do I make mine own, neither have I my soul highly prized to myself, in order to finish my course with joy, and the service which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the good news of the grace of God.

1 Timothy 6:12

Contend earnestly the good contest of faith, take hold upon eternal life, into which thou wert also called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

1 Timothy 1:18

This proclamation I set before thee, child Timothy, according to the gifts of prophecy led before upon thee, that thou in them mightest war the good warfare;

Revelation 3:8

I know thy works: behold, I have given before thee an open door, and none can shut it, for thou hast a little power, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

Proverbs 23:23

Buy the truth, and thou shalt not sell wisdom and instruction and understanding.

Luke 8:15

And that in the good earth, they are they which, in a fair and good heart, having heard, keep the word, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Luke 11:28

And he said, Rather, happy they hearing the word of God, and watching it.

John 4:34

Jesus says to them, My food is that I might do the will of him having sent me, and finish his work.

John 17:6

I manifested thy name to the men which thou hast given me from the world: they were to thee, and thou hast given them to me; and they have kept thy word.

Acts 13:25

And as John completed the course, be said, Whom think ye me to be? I am not. But, behold, he comes after me, whose shoes of the feet I am not worthy to loose.

1 Corinthians 9:24-27

Do ye not know that they running in a race-course, all truly run, and one receives the prize of combat? Do ye so run, that ye might receive.

Philippians 3:13-14

Brethren, I reckon not myself to have been overtaken: but one, truly forgetting things behind, and stretching still farther to things before,

1 Timothy 6:20

O Timothy, watch that which holds firm, turning aside from profane, idle talk, and oppositions of knowledge, bearing a false name:

2 Timothy 1:14

Watch the good deposit by the Holy Spirit dwelling in us.

Hebrews 12:1-2

Wherefore we also having such a cloud of witnesses lying round about us, having laid down every weight, and sin easily captivating, by patience we should run the race set before us,

Revelation 3:10

For thou didst keep the word of my patience, and I will keep thee from the hour of temptation, about to come upon the whole habitable globe, to try them dwelling upon the earth.