Lyrics · 1 Timothy
Fight the Good Fight of Faith
1 Timothy 6:1-21
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This song belongs to the 1 Timothy collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.
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About the passage
1 Timothy 6: The faith is entrusted, not traded for gain
The Book of 1 Timothy closes by putting social inequality, money, endurance, generosity, and doctrine under the same entrusted charge. Enslaved believers are instructed within a real and unequal social order, including when masters share their faith, without turning the passage into either a complete defense or a complete abolition program. False teachers then expose another distortion: they treat godliness as a route to profit. Paul answers with contentment, warning that determination to become rich can end in traps, drowning, wandering, and self-inflicted sorrow. Timothy is told to flee that pattern and pursue righteousness, faith, love, patience, and meekness before God and the coming Christ. Those already rich are redirected toward generous good works. The letter ends where it began, with Timothy guarding what was entrusted to him against impressive-sounding claims that have wandered from the faith.
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