2 Timothy 4:7

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Summary

2 Timothy 4:7

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

Have fought

1 Timothy 6:12

I have finished

I have kept

Revelation 3:8

General references

Hebrews 12:4

Bible References

Have fought

Strive earnestly in the good conflict of faith. Lay hold of eternal life, to which thou hast been called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

I have finished

Jesus says to them, My food is that I should do the will of him that has sent me, and that I should finish his work.

And as John was fulfilling his course he said, Whom do ye suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, there comes one after me, the sandal of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.

But I make no account of my life as dear to myself, so that I finish my course, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the grace of God.

Know ye not that they who run in the race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain.

Brethren, I do not count to have got possession myself; but one thing forgetting the things behind, and stretching out to the things before,

Let us also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us,

I have kept

Keep, by the Holy Spirit which dwells in us, the good deposit entrusted.

Buy the truth, and sell it not; wisdom, and instruction, and intelligence.

But that in the good ground, these are they who in an honest and good heart, having heard the word keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.

I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world. They were thine, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy word.

O Timotheus, keep the entrusted deposit, avoiding profane, vain babblings, and oppositions of false-named knowledge,

I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an opened door, which no one can shut, because thou hast a little power, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

General references

Mark the perfect, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace;

He that finds his life shall lose it, and he who has lost his life for my sake shall find it.

Blessed is that bondman whom his lord on coming shall find doing thus.

If the work of any one which he has built upon the foundation shall abide, he shall receive a reward.

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, wrestling against sin.