2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought a good fight and have fulfilled my course and have kept the fayth.
Tyndale New Testament
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 now redy to be offered and the tyme of my departynge is at honde.
Cross References
Luke 8:15That in the good grounde are they which with a good and pure hert heare the worde and kepe it and bringe forth frute with pacience.
John 4:34Iesus sayde vnto them: my meate is to doo the will of him that sent me. And to fynnysshe his worke.
Acts 13:25And when Iohn had fulfylled his course he sayde: whome ye thinke that I am the same am I not. But beholde ther cometh one after me whose shewes of his fete I am not worthy to lowse.
1 Corinthians 9:24Perceave ye not how that they which runne in a course runne all yet but one receaveth the rewarde. So runne that ye maye obtayne.
1 Timothy 1:18This commaundement commit I vnto the sonne Timotheus accordynge to the prophisies which in tyme past were prophisied of the that thou in them shuldest fyght a good fyght
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 →