2 Timothy 4:7

Murdock Translation

I have fought a good combat, I have completed my race, I have preserved my fidelity;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

King James Version (1611)
I haue fought a good fight, I haue finished my course, I haue kept the faith.

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

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

New American Standard Bible
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith;

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

New American Standard Bible (1995)
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith;

Legacy Standard Bible
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.

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

Contemporary English Version
I have fought well. I have finished the race, and I have been faithful.

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

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

Easy-to-Read Version
I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have served the Lord faithfully.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I haue fought a good fight, and haue finished my course: I haue kept the faith.

George Lamsa Translation
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my race, I have kept my faith:

Good News Translation
I have done my best in the race, I have run the full distance, and I have kept the faith.

Lexham English Bible
I have fought the good fight, I have completed the race, I have kept the faith.

Literal Translation
I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

Amplified Bible
I have fought the good and worthy and noble fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith [firmly guarding the gospel against error].

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

Bible in Basic English
I have made a good fight, I have come to the end of my journey, I have kept the faith:

Hebrew Names Version
I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

International Standard Version
I have fought the good fight. I have completed the race. I have kept the faith.1 Corinthians 9:24-25; Philippians 3:14; 1 Timothy 6:12; Hebrews 12:1;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
The good agony I have fought, and my running I have completed, and my faith I have kept.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I haue fought a good fyght, I haue fulfylled [my] course, I haue kept ye faith.

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

World English Bible
I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith;

Weymouth's New Testament
I have gone through the glorious contest; I have run the race; I have guarded the faith.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y haue stryuun a good strijf, Y haue endid the cours, Y haue kept the feith.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
I have fought a good fight, I have finished [my] course, I have kept the faith:

New English Translation
I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith!

New King James Version
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

New Living Translation
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have remained faithful.

New Life Bible
I have fought a good fight. I have finished the work I was to do. I have kept the faith.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The noble contest, have I contested, the race, have I finished, the faith, have I kept:

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have fought a good fight: I have finished my course: I have kept the faith.

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

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
I have fought a good fight and have fulfilled my course and have kept the fayth.

Young's Literal Translation
the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I haue foughte a good fighte: I haue fulfylled the course: I haue kepte the faith.

Mace New Testament (1729)
I have struggled in a glorious cause: I have finish'd my career: I have stood to the faith:

Simplified Cowboy Version
I have fought the good fight. I have finished the drive. I have been, and continue to be faithful until the end.

Contextual Overview

¹ I charge thee, before God, and our Lord Jesus the Messiah, who is to judge the living and the dead, at the manifestation of his kingdom, ² 2 Proclaim the word; and persist [fn] with diligence, in time and out of time; admonish, and rebuke, with all patience and instructiveness. ³ For the time will come, when they will not give ear to sound teaching; but, according to their lusts, will multiply to themselves teachers, in the itching of their hearing; ⁴ and will turn away their ears from the truth, and incline after fables. ⁵ But be thou vigilant in all things; and endure evils, and do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill thy ministry. ⁶ But I am soon to be immolated; and the time of my dissolution hath come. ⁷ I have fought a good combat, I have completed my race, I have preserved my fidelity; ⁸ and henceforth there is preserved for me a crown of righteousness, with which my Lord, the righteous Judge, will recompense me in that day; and not me only, but them also who love his manifestation.

Bible Verse Review
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have thought, 1 Timothy 6:12

I have finished: John 4:34, Acts 13:25, Acts 20:24, 1 Corinthians 9:24-27, Philippians 3:13, Philippians 3:14, Hebrews 12:1, Hebrews 12:2

I have kept: 2 Timothy 1:14, Proverbs 23:23, Luke 8:15, Luke 11:28, John 17:6, 1 Timothy 6:20, Revelation 3:8, Revelation 3:10

Reciprocal: Exodus 39:42 - according Exodus 40:33 - So Moses Numbers 4:23 - to perform the service Numbers 4:30 - service Numbers 6:20 - and after Numbers 8:25 - cease waiting upon the service thereof Numbers 32:27 - armed Joshua 11:23 - And the land Joshua 24:29 - after these Judges 3:2 - might know Nehemiah 4:17 - with one Nehemiah 13:22 - Remember Psalms 36:10 - and thy Proverbs 13:19 - The desire Proverbs 21:21 - findeth Proverbs 24:6 - by Ezekiel 48:11 - charge Daniel 12:13 - rest Zechariah 9:13 - against Zechariah 10:5 - because Mark 4:29 - brought forth Luke 6:23 - your Luke 12:37 - Blessed Luke 19:16 - Lord John 4:36 - he that reapeth receiveth John 17:4 - finished Romans 2:7 - patient 1 Corinthians 3:14 - General 1 Corinthians 9:7 - goeth 1 Corinthians 9:25 - striveth 1 Corinthians 16:13 - quit 2 Corinthians 5:8 - and willing 2 Corinthians 6:7 - the armour 2 Corinthians 10:3 - we do Philippians 1:17 - that Philippians 1:20 - whether Philippians 1:27 - the faith Philippians 1:30 - the same 1 Timothy 1:18 - mightest 2 Timothy 2:5 - is he 2 Timothy 3:11 - but Hebrews 10:32 - ye endured Hebrews 12:4 - General 1 Peter 5:9 - stedfast Revelation 2:10 - be thou Revelation 11:7 - when Revelation 12:11 - they overcame Revelation 14:12 - the faith Revelation 14:13 - and their

Cross-References

Acts 10:35
but, among all the nations, he who feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is acceptable with him.

Romans 6:16
Know ye not, that to whomsoever ye give up yourselves to serve in bondage, his servants ye are, whom ye serve; whether it be to sin, or whether it be to righteousness, that ye give ear?

Romans 12:1
I beseech you, therefore, my brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, by a rational service [fn] .

Romans 14:18
For he who is in these things a servant of Messiah, is pleasing to God, and approved before men.

Romans 15:16
that I should be a minister of Jesus Messiah among the Gentiles, and should subserve the gospel of God, that the oblation of the Gentiles might be acceptable, and be sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 1:6
that the glory of his grace might be glorified, which he poured upon us by his Beloved One;

1 Timothy 5:4
But if a widow hath children, or grandchildren, let them first learn to show kindness to their own households, and to repay the obligations to their parents; for this is acceptable before God.

Hebrews 11:4
By faith, Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than that of Cain; and on account of it, he is testified of that he was righteous, and God bore testimony to his offering; and in consequence thereof, though dead he yet speaketh.

James 1:15
And this [fn] lust conceiveth, and bringeth forth sin; and sin, when mature, bringeth forth death.

1 Peter 2:5
And ye also, as living stones, are builded and become spiritual temples, and holy priests, for the offering of spiritual sacrifices, acceptable before God, through Jesus the Messiah.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I have fought a good fight,.... The fight of faith; the same as in 1 Timothy 6:10

1 Timothy 6:10- ::

I have finished my course, or race; the race of life set before him, his course of years; his days were extinct, the grave was ready for him, and he for that; his last sands were dropping, and he was just going the way of all flesh; or else he means the course of his ministry, which he desired to finish with joy, and was now finishing;

Acts 13:25 he was now got to the end of his line, to Rome, where he was to be a martyr for Christ, Acts 23:11 so that he now concluded his work was done, and his warfare accomplished:

I have kept the faith; by which he means, not so much the grace of faith, that was kept by Christ, the object, author, and finisher of it, and through his effectual grace and powerful intercession; but rather the profession of faith, which he had held fast without wavering; and chiefly the doctrine of faith, which was committed to his trust, which he had kept pure and incorrupt against all opposition; unless his faithfulness and integrity in the ministerial work should be thought rather to be intended; and which sense is favoured by the Syriac and Ethiopic versions, which render it, "I have kept my faith"; or have been faithful to my trust, as a good steward of the mysteries of God; not concealing and keeping back any thing that was profitable, but declaring the whole counsel of God; and now what remained for him was the crown of righteousness; and this he says for the comfort and encouragement and imitation of Timothy and others. The phrase seems to be Jewish; it is said y by the Jews, that he that does not keep the feast of unleavened bread, is as he who does not נטיר מהימנותא, "keep the faith of the holy blessed God".

y Zohar in Exod. fol. 51. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I have fought a good fight - The Christian life is often represented as a conflict, or warfare; see the notes on 1 Timothy 6:12. That noble conflict with sin, the world, the flesh, and the devil, Paul now says he had been able to maintain.

I have finished my course - The Christian life, too, is often represented as a “race” to be run; compare the notes at 1 Corinthians 9:24-26.

I have kept the faith - I have steadfastly maintained the faith of the gospel; or, have lived a life of fidelity to my Master. Probably the expression means that he had kept his plighted faith to the Redeemer, or had spent a life in faithfully endeavoring to serve his Lord.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 7. I have fought a good fight — Every reader will perceive that the apostle, as was his very frequent custom, alludes to the contests at the Grecian games: Τον αγυνα τον καλον ηγωνισμαι· I have wrestled that good wrestling-I have struggled hard, and have over come, in a most honourable cause.

I have finished my course — I have started for the prize, and have come up to the goal, outstripping all my competitors, and have gained this prize also.

I have kept the faith — As the laws of these games must be most diligently observed and kept, (for though a man overcome, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully,) so I have kept the rules of the spiritual combat and race; and thus, having contended lawfully, and conquered in each exercise, I have a right to expect the prize.