2 Timothy 4:7
I haue fought a good fight, and haue finished my course: I haue kept the faith.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 nowe readie to be offered, and the time of my departing is at hand.
Cross References
Judges 3:2Only to make the generations of the children of Israel to know, and to teach them warre, which doutles their predecessors knew not)
Luke 8:15But that which fell in good ground, are they which with an honest and good heart heare the worde, and keepe it, and bring forth fruite with patience.
John 4:34Iesus saide vnto them, My meate is that I may doe the will of him that sent me, and finish his worke.
Acts 13:25And when Iohn had fulfilled his course, he saide, Whom ye thinke that I am, I am not he: but beholde, there commeth one after me, whose shooe of his feete I am not worthy to loose.
1 Corinthians 9:24Knowe ye not, that they which runne in a race, runne all, yet one receiueth the price? so runne that ye may obtaine.
1 Timothy 1:18This commandement commit I vnto thee, sonne Timotheus, according to the prophecies, which went before vpon thee, that thou by them shouldest fight a good fight,
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 →