2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the good fight. I have completed the course. I have preserved the faith.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
In Context
6For I am already being worn away, and the time of my dissolution presses close.
Cross References
Judges 3:2so that afterward their sons might learn to contend with their enemies, and to have a willingness to do battle:
Luke 8:15But those which were on good soil are those who, upon hearing the word with a good and noble heart, retain it, and they bring forth fruit in patience.
John 4:34Jesus said to them: “My food is to do the will of the One who sent me, so that I may perfect his work.
Acts 13:25Then, when John completed his course, he was saying: ‘I am not the one you consider me to be. For behold, one arrives after me, the shoes of whose feet I am not worthy to loosen.’
1 Corinthians 9:24Do you not know that, of those who run in a race, all of them, certainly, are runners, but only one achieves the prize. Similarly, you must run, so that you may achieve.
1 Timothy 1:18This precept I commend to you, my son Timothy, in accord with the prophets who preceded you: that you serve among them like a soldier in a good war,
Matthew Henry on 2 Timothy 4:2-9
Ministerial Duties; The Apostle's Joyful Expectation. ( a. d. 66.) 1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from… Read the whole commentary →