2 Timothy 4:7
I have combated the good combat, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
Darby Translation
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 poured out, and the time of my release is come.
Cross References
Judges 3:2only that the generations of the children of Israel might know war by learning it, at the least those who before had known nothing thereof:
Luke 8:15But that in the good ground, these are they who in an honest and good heart, having heard the word keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
John 4:34Jesus says to them, My food is that I should do the will of him that has sent me, and that I should finish his work.
Acts 13:25And as John was fulfilling his course he said, Whom do ye suppose that I am? *I* am not [he]. But behold, there comes one after me, the sandal of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.
1 Corinthians 9:24Know ye not that they who run in [the] race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain.
1 Timothy 1:18This charge, [my] child Timotheus, I commit to thee, according to the prophecies as to thee preceding, in order that thou mightest war by them the good warfare,
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 →