'Finish' in the Bible

The overseers insisted, “Finish your assigned work each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”

“Aaron and his sons are to finish covering the holy objects and all their equipment whenever the camp is to move on. The Kohathites will come and carry them, but they are not to touch the holy objects or they will die. These are the transportation duties of the Kohathites regarding the tent of meeting.

At that time Tattenai the governor of the region west of the Euphrates River, Shethar-bozenai, and their colleagues came to the Jews and asked, “Who gave you the order to rebuild this temple and finish this structure?”

So we questioned the elders and asked, “Who gave you the order to rebuild this temple and finish this structure?”

before his colleagues and the powerful men of Samaria, and said, “What are these pathetic Jews doing? Can they restore it by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they ever finish it? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”

For this is what the Lord says:The whole land will be a desolation,but I will not finish it off.

Go up among her vineyard terraces and destroy them,but do not finish them off.Prune away her shoots,for they do not belong to the Lord.

“But even in those days”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“I will not finish you off.

If they fast, I will not hear their cry of despair. If they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. Rather, I will finish them off by sword, famine, and plague.”

I will devastate Elam before their enemies,before those who want to take their lives.I will bring disaster on them,My burning anger.This is the Lord’s declaration.I will send the sword after themuntil I finish them off.

Otherwise, after he has laid the foundation and cannot finish it, all the onlookers will begin to make fun of him,

saying, ‘This man started to build and wasn’t able to finish.’

“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work,” Jesus told them.

But I count my life of no value to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of God’s grace.

But now finish the task as well, that just as there was eagerness to desire it, so there may also be a completion from what you have.

When they finish their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, conquer them, and kill them.