2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 even now ready to be sacrificed: and the time of my dissolution is at hand.
Cross References
Judges 3:2That afterwards their children might learn to fight with their enemies, and to be trained up to war:
Luke 8:15But that on the good ground, are they who in a good and perfect heart, hearing the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit in patience.
John 4:34Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work.
Acts 13:25And when John was fulfilling his course, he said: I am not he, whom you think me to be: but behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.
1 Corinthians 9:24Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize ? So run that you may obtain.
1 Timothy 1:18This precept I commend to thee, O son Timothy; according to the prophecies going before on thee, that thou war in them a 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 →