2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought a good combat, I have completed my race, I have preserved my fidelity;
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
In Context
6But I am soon to be immolated; and the time of my dissolution hath come.
Cross References
Luke 8:15And that on good ground, are those who, with a humble and good heart, hear the word, and retain it, and with patience bring forth fruits.
John 4:34Jesus said to them: My food is to do the pleasure of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.
Acts 13:25And while John was fulfilling his ministry, he said: Who, suppose ye, that I am? I am not he. But lo, he cometh after me; of whom I am not worthy to untie his shoe-strings.
1 Corinthians 9:24Know ye not that they who run in the stadium, run all of them; yet it is one who gaineth the victory. Run ye, so as to attain.
1 Timothy 1:18This injunction I commit to thee, my son Timothy, according to the former predictions concerning thee, that in them thou mightest war this 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 →