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2 Timothy 4:7

Contemporary English Version 1995

I have fought well. I have finished the race, and I have been faithful.

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Fight a good fight for the faith and claim eternal life. God offered it to you when you clearly told about your faith, while so many people listened.

But I don't care what happens to me, as long as I finish the work the Lord Jesus gave me to do. And this work is to tell the good news about God's gift of undeserved grace.

Jesus said: My food is to do what God wants! He is the one who sent me, and I must finish the work that he gave me to do.

Jesus replied, “That's true, but the people who are really blessed are the ones who hear and obey God's message!”

I know everything you have done. And I have placed before you an open door no one can close. You were not very strong, but you obeyed my message and did not deny you are my followers.

You obeyed my message and endured. So I will protect you from the time of testing everyone in all the world must go through.

Those seeds that fell on good ground are the people who listen to the message and keep it in good and honest hearts. They last and produce a harvest.

Timothy, guard what God has placed in your care! Don't pay any attention to godless and stupid talk that sounds smart but really isn't.

You have been trusted with a wonderful treasure. Guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit, who lives within us.

Timothy, my son, the instructions I am giving you are based on what some prophets once said about you. If you follow these instructions, you will fight like a good soldier.

You have given me some followers from this world, and I have shown them what you are like. They were yours, but you gave them to me, and they have obeyed you.

Invest in truth and wisdom, discipline and good sense, and don't part with them.

Then, when John's work was almost done, he said, “Who do you people think I am? Do you think I am the Promised One? He will come later, and I am not good enough to untie his sandals.”

But I went there because God had told me to go, and I explained the good news I had been preaching to the Gentiles. Then I met privately with the ones who seemed to be the most important leaders. I wanted to make sure my work in the past and my future work would not be for nothing.

You saw me suffer, and you still hear about my troubles. Now you must suffer in the same way.

Timothy, you know what I teach and how I live. You know what I want to do and what I believe. You have seen how patient and loving I am, and how in the past I put up with

Then each of those who had been killed was given a white robe and told to rest for a little while. They had to wait until the complete number of the Lord's other servants and followers would be killed.




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