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1 Tim. 6:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Fighto the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professedq a good profession before many witnesses.

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2 Tim. 4:7• ⁷I have combated the good combat, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. (2 Tim. 4:7)

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Heb. 10:23• ²³Let us hold fast the confession of the hope unwavering, (for he is faithful who has promised;) (Heb. 10:23)

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Eternal,

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Fight.

1 Tim. 1:18• ¹⁸This charge, my child Timotheus, I commit to thee, according to the prophecies as to thee preceding, in order that thou mightest war by them the good warfare, (1 Tim. 1:18)

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Zech. 10:5• ⁵And they shall be as mighty men, treading down the mire of the streets in the battle; and they shall fight, for Jehovah is with them, and the riders on horses shall be put to shame. (Zech. 10:5)

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1 Cor. 9:25‑26• ²⁵But every one that contends for a prize is temperate in all things: *they* then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but *we* an incorruptible.
²⁶*I* therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air. (1 Cor. 9:25‑26)

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2 Cor. 6:7• ⁷in the word of truth, in the power of God; through the arms of righteousness on the right hand and left, (2 Cor. 6:7)

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2 Cor. 10:3‑5• ³For walking in flesh, we do not war according to flesh.
⁴For the arms of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful according to God to the overthrow of strongholds;
⁵overthrowing reasonings and every high thing that lifts itself up against the knowledge of God, and leading captive every thought into the obedience of the Christ; (2 Cor. 10:3‑5)

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Eph. 6:10‑18• ¹⁰For the rest, brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the might of his strength.
¹¹Put on the panoply of God, that ye may be able to stand against the artifices of the devil:
¹²because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against principalities, against authorities, against the universal lords of this darkness, against spiritual power of wickedness in the heavenlies.
¹³For this reason take to you the panoply of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having accomplished all things, to stand.
¹⁴Stand therefore, having girt about your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
¹⁵and shod your feet with the preparation of the glad tidings of peace:
¹⁶besides all these, having taken the shield of faith with which ye will be able to quench all the inflamed darts of the wicked one.
¹⁷Have also the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is God's word;
¹⁸praying at all seasons, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching unto this very thing with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints; (Eph. 6:10‑18)

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1 Thess. 5:8‑9• ⁸but *we* being of the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as helmet the hope of salvation;
⁹because God has not set us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, (1 Thess. 5:8‑9)

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2 Tim. 4:7• ⁷I have combated the good combat, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. (2 Tim. 4:7)

lay.

1 Tim. 6:19• ¹⁹laying by for themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold of what is really life. (1 Tim. 6:19)

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Psa. 63:8• ⁸My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me. (Psa. 63:8)

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Prov. 3:18• ¹⁸She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her; and happy is he that retaineth her. (Prov. 3:18)

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Song of Sol. 3:4• ⁴--Scarcely had I passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother's house, And into the chamber of her that conceived me. (Song of Sol. 3:4)

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Phil. 3:12‑14• ¹²Not that I have already obtained the prize, or am already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may get possession of it, seeing that also I have been taken possession of by Christ Jesus.
¹³Brethren, *I* do not count to have got possession myself; but one thing--forgetting the things behind, and stretching out to the things before,
¹⁴I pursue, looking towards the goal, for the prize of the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus. (Phil. 3:12‑14)

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Heb. 3:14• ¹⁴For we are become companions of the Christ if indeed we hold the beginning of the assurance firm to the end; (Heb. 3:14)

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Heb. 6:18• ¹⁸that by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us, (Heb. 6:18)

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1 John 2:25• ²⁵And this is the promise which *he* has promised us, life eternal. (1 John 2:25)

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Rev. 3:3• ³Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and keep it and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know at what hour I shall come upon thee. (Rev. 3:3)

whereunto.

Rom. 8:28‑30• ²⁸But we *do* know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to purpose.
²⁹Because whom he has foreknown, he has also predestinated to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he should be the firstborn among many brethren.
³⁰But whom he has predestinated, these also he has called; and whom he has called, these also he has justified; but whom he has justified, these also he has glorified. (Rom. 8:28‑30)

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Rom. 9:23‑24• ²³and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory,
²⁴us, whom he has also called, not only from amongst the Jews, but also from amongst the nations? (Rom. 9:23‑24)

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Col. 3:15• ¹⁵And let the peace of Christ preside in your hearts, to which also ye have been called in one body, and be thankful. (Col. 3:15)

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1 Thess. 2:12• ¹²that ye should walk worthy of God, who calls you to his own kingdom and glory. (1 Thess. 2:12)

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2 Thess. 2:14• ¹⁴whereto he has called you by our glad tidings, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Thess. 2:14)

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2 Tim. 1:9• ⁹who has saved us, and has called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages of time, (2 Tim. 1:9)

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1 Peter 3:9• ⁹not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but on the contrary, blessing others, because ye have been called to this, that ye should inherit blessing. (1 Peter 3:9)

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1 Peter 5:10• ¹⁰But the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, when ye have suffered for a little while, himself shall make perfect, stablish, strengthen, ground: (1 Peter 5:10)

hast.

1 Tim. 6:13• ¹³I enjoin thee before God who preserves all things in life, and Christ Jesus who witnessed before Pontius Pilate the good confession, (1 Tim. 6:13)

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Deut. 26:3,17‑19• ³and thou shalt come unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto Jehovah thy God, that I am come unto the land that Jehovah swore unto our fathers to give us.
¹⁷Thou hast this day accepted Jehovah to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and to hearken unto his voice;
¹⁸and Jehovah hath accepted thee this day to be a people of possession to him, as he hath told thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments,
¹⁹so that he should make thee high above all the nations which he hath made, in praise and in name and in honour; and that thou shouldest be a holy people to Jehovah thy God, as he hath said. (Deut. 26:3,17‑19)

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Isa. 44:5• ⁵One shall say, I am Jehovah's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall write with his hand: I am Jehovah's, and surname himself by the name of Israel. (Isa. 44:5)

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Luke 12:8‑9• ⁸But I say to you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, the Son of man will confess him also before the angels of God;
⁹but he that shall have denied me before men shall be denied before the angels of God; (Luke 12:8‑9)

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Rom. 10:9‑10• ⁹that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from among the dead, thou shalt be saved.
¹⁰For with the heart is believed to righteousness; and with the mouth confession made to salvation. (Rom. 10:9‑10)

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Heb. 13:23• ²³Know that our brother Timotheus is set at liberty; with whom, if he should come soon, I will see you. (Heb. 13:23)

• The figures are taken as often from the games so familiar in that day. "Combat the good combat of the faith." Flesh or sight would only seek present things. Christ must' be in view. " (“On 1 Timothy 6:11-16” by W. Kelly)

• As in "fleeing," and "pursuing," the work is regarded as expressly continuous: not so in "laying hold" of the eternal life. It is a single act, and duration is excluded from the thought, all being summed up in its completion, like the waking up righteously once for all in 1 Cor. 15:23 compared with the habit of not sinning. It is the prize at the end of which faith should have laid hold now (“On 1 Timothy 6:11-16” by W. Kelly)

• If anyone represents God in the world, there must be warfare, because the enemy is there. (“1 Timothy 6” by J.N. Darby)

• If the man of God flees from evil, follows good, fights for the faith and lays hold of eternal life, he will be one who in his life makes a good confession before others. He becomes a living witness to the truths that he professes. (“Warnings Against Pride of the Flesh and Instruction in Piety: 1 Timothy 6” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Strive earnestly in the good conflict of faithf. Lay holdg of eternal life, to which thou hast been called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "combat of the faith."

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As "seize," Acts 16.19; "caught hold," Matt. 14.31.

W. Kelly Translation

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Combat the good combat of faith; lay hold on the life eternal whereunto thou wasta called, and didst confess the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

WK Translation Notes

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"Also" is only in some inferior witnesses. It only encumbers the sense.