2 Timothy 4:7

Paul's Charge To Timothy

⁶ For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come. ⁷ I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith; ⁸ henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge will give me in that day, and not me only but all who love his appearing.

Kept the Faith

Acts 20:24

But life precious to myself, I make of no account that I may finish my course and the service which I received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

1 Timothy 6:12

Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were called and made the good profession before many witnesses.

1 Timothy 1:18

This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before concerning you, that by them you may perform an honorable service,

Revelation 3:8

I know your works; behold, I have placed before you an opened door, which no man can shut; because you have a little power, and kept my word, and did not deny my name.

Luke 8:15

But that on the good ground signifies those who, with a noble and good heart, hearing the word retain it, and bear fruit persistently.

Luke 11:28

And he said, Yes indeed, blessed are those that hear the word of God and keep it.

John 4:34

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

John 17:6

I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou gayest me out of the world; they were thine, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy word.

Acts 13:25

And when John completed his course, he said, Who do you suppose I am? I am not [the Christ]; but behold, there comes after me one the sandal of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.

1 Corinthians 9:24-27

Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain.

Philippians 3:13-14

I consider not myself, brothers, to have attained it; but this one thing I do; forgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to those before,

1 Timothy 6:20

O Timothy, keep the trust, turning away from profane and empty words, and contradictions of mis-named science,

2 Timothy 1:14

Guard the good trust, through the Holy Spirit which dwells in us.

Hebrews 12:1-2

Therefore also we, having so great a cloud of witnesses lying around us, laying aside every impediment and sin which entirely surrounds us, let us run with patience the race set before us,

Revelation 3:10

Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which is to come on all the world, to try those who dwell on the earth.