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1 Timothy 6:12

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

Run the great race of the Faith, and win the Immortal Life. It was for this that you received the Call, and, in the presence of many witnesses, made the great profession of Faith.

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By the Message of Truth, and by the power of God; by the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;

Through the evidence afforded by the service thus rendered, you cause men to praise God for your fidelity to your profession of faith in the Good News of the Christ, as well as for the liberality of your contributions for them and for all others.

You will be engaged in the same hard struggle as that which you once saw me waging, and which you hear that I am waging still.

Let the Peace that the Christ gives decide all doubts within your hearts; for you also were called to the enjoyment of peace as members of one Body. And show yourselves thankful.

So that you should make your daily lives worthy of God who is calling you into the glory of his Kingdom.

To this you were called by the Good News which we brought you, to attain to the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

This, then, is the charge that I lay upon you, Timothy, my Child, in accordance with what was predicted of you--Fight the good fight in the spirit of those predictions,

with faith, and with a clear conscience; and it is because they have thrust this aside, that, as regards the Faith, some have wrecked their lives.

Do not neglect the divine gift within you, which was given you, amid many a prediction, when the hands of the Officers of the Church were laid on your head.

I urge you, as in the sight of God, the source of all life, and of Christ Jesus who before Pontius Pilate made the great profession of Faith--

storing up for themselves what in the future will prove to be a good foundation, that they may gain the only true Life.

It was God who saved us, and from him we received our solemn Call--not as a reward for anything that we had done, but in fulfillment of his own loving purpose. For that love was extended to us, through Christ Jesus, before time began,

and what you learnt from me, in the presence of many listeners, entrust to reliable men, who will be able in their turn to teach others.

I have run the great Race; I have finished the Course; I have kept the Faith.

You will be glad to hear that our Brother, Timothy, has been set free. If he comes here soon, we will visit you together.

For we now all share in the Christ, if indeed we retain, unshaken to the end, the confidence that we had at the first.

For he intended us to find great encouragement in these two unchangeable things, which make it impossible for God to prove false--we, I mean, who fled for safety where we might lay hold on the hope set before us.

never returning evil for evil, or abuse for abuse, but, on the contrary, blessing. It was to this that you were called--to obtain a blessing!

God, from whom all help comes, and who called you, by your union with Christ, into his eternal glory, will, when you have suffered for a little while, himself perfect, establish, strengthen you.

And this is what he himself promised us--The Immortal Life!

Dear friends, while I was making every effort to write to you about our common Salvation, I felt that I must write to you at once to urge you to fight in defense of the Faith that has once for all been entrusted to the keeping of Christ's People.

Therefore remember what you have received and heard, and lay it to heart and repent. Unless you are on the watch, I shall come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I am coming to you.




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