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Scripture • World English Bible
1 Timothy 6:11–16
11But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
12Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
13I command you before God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,
14that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15which at the right time he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords.
16He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen nor can see, to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.
World English Bible (WEB) • Public Domain
Reflection
Paul’s command is simple and surgical: run from what destroys and run toward what builds. The “good fight” is not a slogan for aggression but a summons to steady, disciplined discipleship—taking hold of the eternal life you already confessed. That means two realities at once: rejecting whatever pulls you back (temptation, pride, and passivity) and deliberately cultivating the qualities that mark Christlike men—righteousness that shapes choices, godliness that orders life toward God, faith that trusts through trials, love that serves without praise, perseverance that endures hardship, and gentleness that masters strength. This fight is lived in daily decisions: how you speak, what you let your eyes consume, whom you serve, how you respond to insult, and whether you keep showing up to prayer and Scripture even when you don’t feel it. Paul appeals to the reality of Christ’s coming and the authority of God to underscore how serious and hopeful this call is. Fight with humility: admit your weakness, rely on grace, take small, concrete steps, and let consistent habits form a life that points to Jesus.
Putting Faith Into Action
- This week, identify one area where you are wavering (pride, anger, laziness, or fear). Write a short plan with two concrete steps to flee that impulse and replace it with one of the virtues Paul names (righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, or gentleness). Carry out the first step within 24 hours and schedule the second within three days.
- Choose a brother you trust and ask him to hold you accountable to one concrete spiritual habit (daily Scripture reading, prayer time, confession, or service). Meet or text weekly for six weeks to report progress and confess struggles.
- Pick one way to serve someone outside your normal circle this month (volunteer, help a neighbor with a concrete task, give time or resources). Do it in humility, without seeking credit, and reflect afterward on how it grew your faith and love.
Prayer
Father, thank you for calling us to a fight that shapes our souls not our fists. Give us strength to flee the impulses that pull us away and the courage to pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness. Keep us blameless and faithful until Christ’s appearing. Help us depend on your Spirit for every step, confessing our failures and receiving your mercy. Use brothers and sisters to sharpen us and send us to serve others in humility. To you be honor and power, now and forever. Amen.
Memory Verse
1 Timothy 6:12 — Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses. (WEB)
“Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.”
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1 Timothy 6
World English Bible • WEB
1Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.
2Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.
3If anyone teaches a different doctrine and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,
4he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,
5constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.
6But godliness with contentment is great gain.
7For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out.
8But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.
9But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
10For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
11But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
12Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
13I command you before God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,
14that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15which at the right time he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords.
16He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen nor can see, to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.
17Charge those who are rich in this present age that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
18that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;
19laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.
20Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,
21which some profess, and thus have wandered from the faith.
World English Bible (WEB) • Public Domain
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