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2 Timothy 4:7 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I have fought the good (worthy, honorable, and noble) fight, I have finished the race, I have kept (firmly held) the faith. American Standard Version (1901) I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith: Common English Bible I have fought the good fight, finished the race, and kept the faith. Catholic Public Domain Version I have fought the good fight. I have completed the course. I have preserved the faith. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. |
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But at fifty years old he is to retire from his service in the work and no longer serve.
He said, ‘Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.’
But the seed in the good ground #– #these are the ones who, having heard the word with an honest and good heart, hold on to it and by enduring, produce fruit.
‘I have revealed your name to the people you gave me from the world. They were yours, you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
‘My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work,’ Jesus told them.
Now as John was completing his mission, he said, “Who do you think I am? I am not the one. But one is coming after me, and I am not worthy to untie the sandals on his feet.”
But I consider my life of no value to myself; my purpose is to finish my course and the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of God’s grace.
I went up according to a revelation and presented to them the gospel I preach among the Gentiles, but did so privately to those recognised as leaders. I wanted to be sure I was not running, and had not been running, in vain.
since you are engaged in the same struggle that you saw I had and now hear that I have.
Timothy, my son, I am giving you this instruction in keeping with the prophecies previously made about you, so that by recalling them you may fight the good fight,
Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of eternal life to which you were called and about which you have made a good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding irreverent and empty speech and contradictions from what is falsely called knowledge.
But you have followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, and endurance,
Because you have kept my command to endure, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is going to come on the whole world to test those who live on the earth.
I know your works. Look, I have placed before you an open door that no one can close because you have but little power; yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.
So they were each given a white robe, and they were told to rest a little while longer until the number would be completed of their fellow servants and their brothers and sisters, who were going to be killed just as they had been.
This was to teach the future generations of the Israelites how to fight in battle, especially those who had not fought before.