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2 Timothy 4:7

Good News Translation

I have done my best in the race, I have run the full distance, and I have kept the faith.

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Truth, wisdom, learning, and good sense—these are worth paying for, but too valuable for you to sell.

and at the age of fifty he shall retire.

But Jesus answered, “Rather, how happy are those who hear the word of God and obey it!”

The seeds that fell in good soil stand for those who hear the message and retain it in a good and obedient heart, and they persist until they bear fruit.

“I have made you known to those you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me. They have obeyed your word,

“My food,” Jesus said to them, “is to obey the will of the one who sent me and to finish the work he gave me to do.

And as John was about to finish his mission, he said to the people, ‘Who do you think I am? I am not the one you are waiting for. But listen! He is coming after me, and I am not good enough to take his sandals off his feet.’

But I reckon my own life to be worth nothing to me; I only want to complete my mission and finish the work that the Lord Jesus gave me to do, which is to declare the Good News about the grace of God.

I went because God revealed to me that I should go. In a private meeting with the leaders I explained the gospel message that I preach to the Gentiles. I did not want my work in the past or in the present to be a failure.

Now you can take part with me in the battle. It is the same battle you saw me fighting in the past, and as you hear, the one I am fighting still.

Timothy, my child, I entrust to you this command, which is in accordance with the words of prophecy spoken in the past about you. Use those words as weapons in order to fight well,

Run your best in the race of faith, and win eternal life for yourself; for it was to this life that God called you when you firmly professed your faith before many witnesses.

Timothy, keep safe what has been entrusted to your care. Avoid the profane talk and foolish arguments of what some people wrongly call “Knowledge.”

Through the power of the Holy Spirit, who lives in us, keep the good things that have been entrusted to you.

But you have followed my teaching, my conduct, and my purpose in life; you have observed my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,

Because you have kept my command to endure, I will also keep you safe from the time of trouble which is coming upon the world to test all the people on earth.

I know what you do; I know that you have a little power; you have followed my teaching and have been faithful to me. I have opened a door in front of you, which no one can close.

Each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to rest a little while longer, until the complete number of other servants and believers were killed, as they had been.

He did this only in order to teach each generation of Israelites about war, especially those who had never been in battle before.




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