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.
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, establish, strengthen you.
This charge I commit unto thee, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to thee, that by them thou mayest war the good warfare;
Remember therefore how thou hast received and didst hear; and keep {\i 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.
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:
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,
And they shall be as mighty men, treading down {\i their enemies} in the mire of the streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because Jehovah is with them; and the riders on horses shall be confounded.
exhorting you, and encouraging {\i you}, and testifying, to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.\par
And 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 which Jehovah sware unto our fathers to give us.
One shall say, I am Jehovah's; and another shall call {\i himself} by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto Jehovah, and surname {\i himself} by the name of Israel.\par
seeing that through the proving {\i of you} by this ministration they glorify God for the obedience of your confession unto the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of {\i your} contribution unto them and unto all;
It was but a little that I passed from them,\par\tab When I found him whom my soul loveth:\par\tab I held him, and would not let him go,\par\tab Until I had brought him into my mother's house,\par\tab And into the chamber of her that conceived me.\par
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.