2 Timothy 4:7

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
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“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith:”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

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

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 2 Timothy 4:7 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Numbers 8:25But at the age of fifty, they must retire from performing the work and no longer serve.
  2. Judges 3:2if only to teach warfare to the subsequent generations of Israel, especially to those who had not known it formerly:
  3. Proverbs 23:23Invest in truth and never sell it— in wisdom and instruction and understanding.
  4. Luke 8:15But the seeds on good soil are those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, cling to it, and by persevering produce a crop.
  5. Luke 11:28But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
  6. John 4:34Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
  7. John 17:6I have revealed Your name to those You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.
  8. Acts 13:25As John was completing his course, he said, ‘Who do you suppose I am? I am not that One. But He is coming after me whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.’
  9. Acts 20:24But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from the Lord Jesus—the ministry of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.
  10. 1 Corinthians 9:24Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.
  11. Philippians 3:13Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
  12. 1 Timothy 1:18Timothy, my child, I entrust you with this command in keeping with the previous prophecies about you, so that by them you may fight the good fight,
  13. 1 Timothy 6:12Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made the good confession before many witnesses.
  14. 1 Timothy 6:20O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid irreverent, empty chatter and the opposing arguments of so-called “knowledge,”
  15. 2 Timothy 1:14Guard the treasure entrusted to you, with the help of the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
  16. Hebrews 12:1Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.
  17. Revelation 3:8I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door, which no one can shut. For you have only a little strength, yet you have kept My word and have not denied My name.
  18. Revelation 3:10Because you have kept My command to persevere, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

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