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

General references

Bible References

Have fought

Fight the good fight of the faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

I have finished

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work.

And as John was completing his course, he said, 'What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. No, but after me one is coming, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.'

But I do not consider my life of any account nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.

Brethren, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

I have kept

Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure that has been entrusted to you.

But the ones that fell on the good soil are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience.

But he said, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!"

"I have manifested your name to the men whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge,

I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word, and have not denied my name.

General references

He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

Blessed is that servant whom his master when he comes will find so doing.

If any man's work which he has built on it survives, he will receive a reward.

In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.