KJV King James Version
I have fought a good fight, I have finished [my] course, I have kept the faith:
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2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought a good fight, I have finished [my] course, I have kept the faith:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
WEB World English Bible
I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
ASV American Standard Version
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,
Surrounding context — 2 Timothy 4
4 And they shall turn away [their] ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished [my] course, I have kept the faith:
8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
9 Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me:
10 For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
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1 Timothy 6:12Fight 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 9:24-27Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.Hebrews 12:1-2Wherefore 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,Acts 20:24But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might 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.Philippians 3:13-14Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but [this] one thing [I do], forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,John 4:34Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.Revelation 3:8I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.Luke 8:15But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep [it], and bring forth fruit with patience.Revelation 3:10Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.Luke 11:28But he said, Yea rather, blessed [are] they that hear the word of God, and keep it.1 Timothy 6:20O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane [and] vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:1 Timothy 1:18This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;John 17:6I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.2 Timothy 1:14That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.Proverbs 23:23Buy the truth, and sell [it] not; [also] wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.Acts 13:25And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not [he]. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of [his] feet I am not worthy to loose.
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