Verse 12

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

Other Translations

• Bibeloversettelse fra KJV1611 og Textus Receptus

  Kjemp den gode kamp av tro, grip tak i det evige liv, til hvilket du også er kalt, og har bekjent en god bekjennelse foran mange vitner.

• NT, oversatt fra gresk

  Kjemp den gode kampen om troen; grip tak i det evige liv, som du ble kalt til og bekjente den gode bekjennelsen foran mange vitner.

• Norsk King James

  Kjemp den gode troens kamp, grip det evige livet, til hvilket du også er kalt, og har bekjent en god bekjennelse foran mange vitner.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Strid troens gode strid, grip det evige liv som du er kalt til, og bekjente den gode bekjennelsen for mange vitner.

• KJV/Textus Receptus til norsk

  Strid troens gode strid, grip det evige liv, som du ble kalt til, og som du bekjente den gode bekjennelse om, i nærvær av mange vitner.

• Den norske oversettelsen av Det Nye Testamente

  Kjemp troens gode kamp. Grip det evige liv som du er kalt til, og har bekjent en god bekjennelse for mange vitner.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Strid troens gode strid, grip det evige liv som du også ble kalt til, og har bekjent en god bekjennelse overfor mange vitner.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Kjemp den gode kampen om troen, og grip det evige liv, det du er kalt til og som du med et godt vitnesbyrd har bekjent for mange.

• gpt4.5-preview

  Strid troens gode strid. Grip det evige liv som du ble kalt til, og som du bekjente så godt framfor mange vitner.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Strid troens gode strid. Grip det evige liv som du ble kalt til, og som du bekjente så godt framfor mange vitner.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Kjemp troens gode strid, grip det evige liv som du er kalt til og som du har bekjent deg til i nærvær av mange vitner.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

• biblecontext

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• NT, oversatt fra gresk Aug2024

  Kjemp troens gode kamp, grip det evige liv som du er kalt til og som du har bekjent den gode bekjennelse foran mange vitner.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  strid Troens gode Strid, grib det evige Liv, til hvilket du og er kaldet, og haver aflagt den gode Bekjendelse for mange Vidner.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Kjemp troens gode strid, grip det evige liv som du også er kalt til, og som du har bekjent deg til i nærvær av mange vitner.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Kjemp troens gode kamp. Grip det evige livet som du ble kalt til, og som du har bekjent for mange vitner.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Strid den gode strid i troen, grip det evige liv som du er kalt til, og som du bekjente deg til foran mange vitner.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Kjemp troens gode strid, grip det evige liv som du er kalt til, og bekjenn den gode bekjennelse for mange vitner.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Kjemp troens gode strid; grip det evige liv, som du er kalt til, og som du bekjente deg til foran mange vitner.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  Fyght ye good fyght of fayth. Laye honde on eternall lyfe where vnto thou arte called and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  fighte a good fighte of faith: laye honde on eternall life, where vnto thou art called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Fight the good fight of faith: lay holde of eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, & hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Fight the good fight of faith, lay hand on eternall lyfe, wherevnto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the life eternal, whereunto thou wast called, and didst confess the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Be fighting the good fight of the faith; take for yourself the life eternal, for which you were marked out, and of which you gave witness in the eyes of all.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Compete well for the faith and lay hold of that eternal life you were called for and made your good confession for in the presence of many witnesses.

Referenced Verses

• 1 Tim 1:18 : 18 This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare,
• 1 Cor 9:25-26 : 25 And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable. 26 Therefore I run, not with uncertainty; thus I fight, not as one who beats the air.
• Eph 6:10-18 : 10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 13 Therefore, take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having your waist girded with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15 And your feet fitted with the readiness of the gospel of peace; 16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, with which you shall be able to extinguish all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; 18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints;
• Heb 3:14 : 14 For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end;
• 1 Tim 6:13 : 13 I charge you in the sight of God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed the good confession;
• 1 Tim 6:19 : 19 Storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
• 1 Pet 3:9 : 9 Not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.
• 1 Pet 5:10 : 10 But the God of all grace, who has called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
• Col 3:15 : 15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you are called in one body; and be thankful.
• 1 Thess 2:12 : 12 That you would walk worthy of God, who has called you to His kingdom and glory.
• 1 Thess 5:8-9 : 8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and as a helmet, the hope of salvation. 9 For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
• 2 Thess 2:14 : 14 To which he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 2 Cor 6:7 : 7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
• 2 Cor 9:13 : 13 While by the evidence of this ministry they glorify God for your professed submission to the gospel of Christ, and for your generous sharing with them, and with all men;
• Deut 26:3 : 3 And you shall go to the priest that shall be in those days, and say to him, I declare this day to the LORD my God, that I have come to the country which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.
• Deut 26:17-19 : 17 You have declared the LORD this day to be your God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to listen to his voice: 18 And the LORD has declared you this day to be his special people, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments; 19 And to make you high above all nations which he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to the LORD your God, as he has spoken.
• Ps 63:8 : 8 My soul follows hard after you: your right hand upholds me.
• Prov 3:18 : 18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold upon her: and happy is everyone who retains her.
• Song 3:4 : 4 It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loves: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her who conceived me.
• Isa 44:5 : 5 One shall say, I am the LORD'S; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall write with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
• Zech 10:5 : 5 And they shall be like mighty men, who tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in battle. And they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.
• Luke 12:8-9 : 8 Also I say to you, Whoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God. 9 But he that denies me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.
• Rom 8:28-30 : 28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. 29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.
• Rom 9:23-24 : 23 And that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, 24 Even us whom He has called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
• Rom 10:9-9 : 9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
• 1 John 2:25 : 25 And this is the promise that he has promised us—eternal life.
• Rev 3:3 : 3 Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore you shall not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you shall not know what hour I will come upon you.
• 2 Tim 1:9 : 9 Who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
• Heb 6:18 : 18 That by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us:
• Heb 13:23 : 23 Know that our brother Timothy has been set free, with whom, if he comes soon, I will see you.
• Phil 3:12-14 : 12 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 13 Brothers, I do not count myself to have laid hold; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
• 2 Tim 4:7 : 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith:
• 2 Cor 10:3-5 : 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh: 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God for the pulling down of strongholds; 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;