2 Timothy 4:7 KJV — MannaFest

2 Timothy 4:7

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

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ASV

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith:

WEB

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

YLT

the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

DBT

I have combated the good combat, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

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2 Timothy — Paul's last letter. From a Roman dungeon, the aging apostle charges Timothy to guard the deposit, endure hardship, and preach the word.

Author: Paul (1:1)
Date: c. AD 64–67, from Roman imprisonment shortly before his death

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Hebrews 12:1
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
1 Timothy 6:12
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
1 Corinthians 16:13
Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
1 Corinthians 9:24–27
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
Philippians 3:14
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

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As a Christian, as a minister, he had fought a good fight. He had done the service, gone through the difficulties of his warfare, and had been instrumental in carrying on the glorious victories of the exalted Redeemer over the powers of darkness. His life was a course, and he had now finished it; as his warfare was accomplished, so his race was run. " I have kept the faith.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

"I have striven the good strife"; the Greek is not restricted to a fight, but includes any competitive contest, for example, that of the racecourse (1Ti 6:12 [ALFORD]; Heb 12:1, 2). kept the faith--the Christian faith committed to me as a believer and an apostle (compare 2Ti 1:14;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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