2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
Updated King James Version
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 ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
Cross References
Judges 3:2Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
Luke 8:15But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, (o. logos) keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
John 4:34Jesus says unto them, My food is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
Acts 13:25And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think all of you that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there comes one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.
1 Corinthians 9:24Know all of you not that they which run in a race run all, but one receives the prize? So run, that all of you may obtain.
1 Timothy 1:18This charge I commit unto you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on you, that you by them might war 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 →