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

Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hand on eternal life, whereunto thou art called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

I have finished

Jesus said unto them, "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me. And to finish his work.

And when John had fulfilled his course, he said, 'Whom ye think that I am? The same am I not, but behold there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.'

But none of those things move me. Neither is my life dear unto myself; that I might fulfill my course with joy, and the ministration which I have received of the Lord Jesus to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

Perceive ye not how that they which run in a course, run all, yet but one receiveth the reward? So run that ye may obtain.

Brethren, I count not myself that I have gotten it: but one thing I say: I forget that which is behind me, and stretch myself unto that which is before me;

Wherefore let us also - seeing that we are compassed with so great a multitude of witnesses - lay away all that presseth down, and the sin that hangeth on us, and let us run with patience, unto the battle that is set before us,

I have kept

That good thing which was committed to thy keeping, keep in the holy ghost which dwelleth in us.

Labour for to get the truth, sell not away wisdom, nurture and understanding;

That in the good ground, are they which with a good and pure heart, hear the word, and keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

But he said, "Yea, happy are they that hear the word of God, and keep it."

"I have declared thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy sayings.

O Timothy, save that which is given thee to keep, and avoid unghostly vanities of voices, and oppositions of science falsely so called,

I know your works. Behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it, for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my sayings: and hast not denied my name.

General references

Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right; for that shall bring a man peace at the last.

He that findeth his life, shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake, shall find it.

Happy is that servant: whom his master, when he cometh, shall find so doing.

If any man's work, that he hath built upon, abide; he shall receive a reward.

For ye have not yet resisted unto blood shedding, striving against sin.