1 Timothy 6:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹² Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the life eternal, whereunto thou wast called, and didst confess the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold of the eternal life to which you were summoned and [for which] you confessed the good confession [of faith] before many witnesses.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the life eternal, whereunto thou wast called, and didst confess the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

Common English Bible

¹² Compete in the good fight of faith. Grab hold of eternal life—you were called to it, and you made a good confession of it in the presence of many witnesses.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you have been called, and make a good profession of faith in the sight of many witnesses.

1 Timothy 6:12 Cross References

1 Peter 5:10

And the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself perfect, stablish, strengthen you.

1 Timothy 1:18

This charge I commit unto thee, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that by them thou mayest war the good warfare;

2 Timothy 4:7

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith:

Revelation 3:3

Remember therefore how thou hast received and didst hear; and keep it, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

1 Timothy 6:13

I charge thee in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and of Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed the good confession;

1 John 2:25

And this is the promise which he promised us, even the life eternal.

Hebrews 6:18

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us;

2 Timothy 1:9

who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

Colossians 3:15

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to the which also ye were called in one body; and be ye thankful.

1 Timothy 6:19

laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on the life which is life indeed.

Zechariah 10:5

And they shall be as mighty men, treading down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them: and the riders on horses shall be confounded.

Hebrews 3:14

for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end:

1 Thessalonians 2:12

to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.

Proverbs 3:18

She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: And happy is every one that retaineth her.

1 Peter 3:9

not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but contrariwise blessing; for hereunto were ye called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

2 Thessalonians 2:14

whereunto he called you through our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Psalm 63:8

My soul followeth hard after thee: Thy right hand upholdeth me.

Deuteronomy 26:3

And thou shalt come unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the land which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us.

Isaiah 44:5

One shall say, I am the LORD'S; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.

2 Corinthians 9:13

seeing that through the proving of you by this ministration they glorify God for the obedience of your confession unto the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution unto them and unto all;

Hebrews 13:23

Know ye that our brother Timothy hath been set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.

2 Corinthians 6:7

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

Song of Solomon 3:4

It was but a little that 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.

Philippians 1:30

having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

1 Timothy 1:19

holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust from them made shipwreck concerning the faith:

1 Timothy 4:14

Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.

2 Timothy 2:2

And the things which thou hast heard from me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

Jude 1:3

Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints.

Judges 3:2

only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof;