2 Timothy 4:7 Cross References - Moffatt

⁷ I have fought in the good fight; I have run my course; I have kept the faith.

¹⁵ As for the seed in the good soil, that means those who hear and hold fast the word in a good and sound heart and so bear fruit stedfastly.

²⁸ But he said, "Blessed rather are those who hear and who observe the word of God!"

³⁴ Jesus said, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

⁶ I have made thy Name known to the men whom thou hast given to me from the world (thine they were, and thou gavest them to me), and they have held to thy word.

²⁵ And as John was closing his career he said, 'What do you take me for? I am not He; no, he is coming after me, and I am not fit to untie the sandals on his feet!'

²⁴ But then, I set no value on my own life as compared with the joy of finishing my course and fulfilling the commission I received from the Lord Jesus to attest the gospel of the grace of God.

²⁴ Do you not know that in a race, though all run, only one man gains the prize? Run so as to win the prize. ²⁵ Every athlete practises self-restraint all round; but while they do it to win a fading wreath, we do it for an unfading. ²⁶ Well, I run without swerving; I do not plant my blows upon the empty air — ²⁷ no, I maul and master my body, in case, after preaching to other people, I am disqualified myself.

¹³ Brothers, I for one do not consider myself to have appropriated this; my one thought is, by forgetting what lies behind me and straining to what lies before me, ¹⁴ to press on to the goal for the prize of God's high call in Christ Jesus.

¹⁸ I transmit these instructions to you, Timotheus my son, in accordance with what the prophets said who first directed me to you; fight the good fight on these lines,

¹² fight in the good fight of the faith, secure that life eternal to which you were called when you voiced the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

²⁰ O Timotheus, keep the securities of the faith intact: avoid the profane jargon and contradictions of what is falsely called 'Knowledge.'

¹⁴ Keep the great securities of your faith intact, by aid of the holy Spirit that dwells within us.

¹ Therefore, with all this host of witnesses encircling us, we must strip off every handicap, strip off sin with its clinging folds, to run our appointed course steadily, ² our eyes fixed upon Jesus as the pioneer and the perfection of faith — upon Jesus who, in order to reach his own appointed joy, steadily endured the cross, thinking nothing of its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

⁸ Lo, I have set a door open before you which no one is able to shut; for though your strength is small, you have kept my word, you have not renounced my Name.

¹⁰ Because you have kept the word of my patient endurance, I will keep you safe through the hour of trial which is coming upon the whole world to test the dwellers on earth.