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

Maintain the glorious combat of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which thou hast been called, and hast made a good profession before many witnesses.

I have finished

Jesus saith unto them, My food is to do the will of Him that sent me, and to finish his work.

And as John was fulfilling his course, he said, Whom do ye take me to be? I am not He: but behold there cometh one after me, the shoes of whose feet I am not worthy to unloose.

But none of these things move me, nor do I account my life dear, so that I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

Know ye not, that those, who run in a race, do all indeed run, but one only receiveth the prize? So run that ye may obtain.

Brethren, I count not myself to have attained it: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to those before,

Having therefore so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every incumbrance, and the sin that easily besets us, and run with patience the race that is set before us,

I have kept

The good thing committed to thee keep, through the Holy Spirit which dwelleth in us.

But that on the good ground, are those who having heard the word, retain it in a good and honest heart, and bring forth fruit with patience.

but He replied, Yea rather happy are they, that hear the word of God and keep it.

I have 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, keep that with which thou art entrusted, avoiding profane empty babblings, and the oppositions of science falsely so called:

I know thy works, and behold I have given thee an open door, and no one shall be able to shut it; for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

General references

He that would save his life shall lose it; and he, that loseth his life for my sake, shall find it.

blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so employed:

If any man's work abide, which he hath built upon it, he shall receive a reward:

for ye have not resisted unto blood in striving against sin.