2 Timothy 4:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 the eternal life, to which you were called, and confessed a good confession before many witnesses.

I have finished

Jesus saith to them, "My food is to do the will of Him Who sent Me, and to finish His work.

And, as John was fulfilling his course, he said, 'What do ye suppose me to be? I am not He. But, behold, there cometh One after me, the sandals of Whose feet I am not worthy to unloose.'

But I make not my soul of any value as dear to myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify the Gospel of the grace of God.

Know ye not that those running a race, all, indeed, run; but one receives the prize? So run; that ye may obtain.

Brethren, I do not account myself to have laid hold of it; but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forth to the things before.

Therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us??aving thrown off every encumbrance and the easily besetting sin??et us run with patience the race lying before us;

I have kept

The good deposit guard through the Holy Spirit Who dwelleth in us.

"And that in the good ground, these are such as, in a good and honest heart, having heard the word, hold it fast, and bear fruit with patience.

But He said, "Yea, rather, happy are those who hear the word of God, and keep it!"

I manifested Thy name to the men whom Thou gavest Me out of the world. Thine they were; and Thou gavest them to Me; and they have kept Thy word.

O Timothy, guard the deposit; turning away from the profane babblings, and oppositions of that which is falsely called knowledge;

"I know your works. Behold, I have set before you a door opened, which no one 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.

Happy is that servant whom his lord, when he comes, shall find so doing.

If any one's work which he built thereon shall remain, he shall receive a reward.

Not yet did ye resist unto blood, contending against sin;