2 Timothy 4:7

I have striven a good strife (or I have fought a good fight), I have ended the course, I have kept the faith.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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 sacrificed now, and the time of my departing is nigh (or and the time of my departure is near).

8In the tother time a crown of rightwiseness is kept to me, which the Lord, a just doomsman, shall yield to me in that day; and not only to me, but also to these that love his coming. (In the time to come a crown of righteousness is kept for me, which the Lord, a righteous Judge, shall give to me on that Day; and not only to me, but also to those who await his coming with love.)

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Cross References

Judges 3:2and that afterward the sons of them should learn to fight with enemies, and to have custom of battle. (and so that through them their sons would learn to fight with their enemies, and know the ways of battle.)

Luke 8:15But that that fell into good earth, be these that, in a good heart, and best, (or be those who, with a good and true heart), hear the word, and hold (it), and bring forth fruit in patience.

John 4:34Jesus saith to them, My meat is that I do the will of him that sent me, [and] that I perform the work of him. (Jesus said to them, My food is that I do the will of him who sent me, until I finish his work.)

Acts 13:25But when John [ful] filled his course, he said, I am not he, whom ye deem me to be (or whom ye judge me to be); but lo! he (that) cometh after me, and I am not worthy to do off [or to unbind] the shoes of his feet.

1 Corinthians 9:24Know ye not, that they that run in a furlong, all run, but one taketh the prize? So run ye, that ye catch (it), (or So run, so that ye win it).

1 Timothy 1:18I betake this commandment to thee, thou son Timothy, after the prophecies that have been heretofore in thee, that thou travail [or fight] in them a good travail,

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 →

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