2 Timothy 4:7

Paul's Charge To Timothy

⁶ For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has arrived. ⁷ I have contended in the noble contest, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; ⁸ henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the Righteous Judge, will recompense to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those who have loved His appearing.

Kept the Faith

Acts 20:24

But I make not my soul of any value as dear to myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify the Gospel of the grace of God.

1 Timothy 6:12

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

1 Timothy 1:18

This charge I commit to you, child Timothy, according to the prophecies going before in respect to you, that you may war with these the noble warfare;

Revelation 3:8

"I know your works. Behold, I have set before you a door opened, which no one can shut; because you have a little power, and kept My word, and did not deny My name.

Luke 8:15

"And that in the good ground, these are such as, in a good and honest heart, having heard the word, hold it fast, and bear fruit with patience.

Luke 11:28

But He said, "Yea, rather, happy are those who hear the word of God, and keep it!"

John 4:34

Jesus saith to them, "My food is to do the will of Him Who sent Me, and to finish His work.

John 17:6

I manifested Thy name to the men whom Thou gavest Me out of the world. Thine they were; and Thou gavest them to Me; and they have kept Thy word.

Acts 13:25

And, as John was fulfilling his course, he said, 'What do ye suppose me to be? I am not He. But, behold, there cometh One after me, the sandals of Whose feet I am not worthy to unloose.'

1 Corinthians 9:24-27

Know ye not that those running a race, all, indeed, run; but one receives the prize? So run; that ye may obtain.

Philippians 3:13-14

Brethren, I do not account myself to have laid hold of it; but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forth to the things before.

1 Timothy 6:20

O Timothy, guard the deposit; turning away from the profane babblings, and oppositions of that which is falsely called knowledge;

2 Timothy 1:14

The good deposit guard through the Holy Spirit Who dwelleth in us.

Hebrews 12:1-2

Therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us??aving thrown off every encumbrance and the easily besetting sin??et us run with patience the race lying before us;

Revelation 3:10

Because you kept the word of My patience. I also will keep you from the hour of trial, which is about to come upon the whole inhabited earth, to try those who dwell upon the earth.