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, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were called and made the good profession before many witnesses.

I have finished

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

And when John completed his course, he said, Who do you suppose I am? I am not [the Christ]; but behold, there comes after me one the sandal of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.

But life precious to myself, I make of no account that I may finish my course and the service which I received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain.

I consider not myself, brothers, to have attained it; but this one thing I do; forgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to those before,

Therefore also we, having so great a cloud of witnesses lying around us, laying aside every impediment and sin which entirely surrounds us, let us run with patience the race set before us,

I have kept

Guard the good trust, through the Holy Spirit which dwells in us.

But that on the good ground signifies those who, with a noble and good heart, hearing the word retain it, and bear fruit persistently.

And he said, Yes indeed, blessed are those that hear the word of God and keep it.

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

O Timothy, keep the trust, turning away from profane and empty words, and contradictions of mis-named science,

I know your works; behold, I have placed before you an opened door, which no man can shut; because you have a little power, and kept my word, and did not deny my name.

General references

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

Blessed is that servant whom his Lord, when he comes, shall find so doing.

If any one's work continues which he has built, he shall receive a reward;

You have not yet resisted to blood contending against sin.