I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
Parallel translations
- KJV I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
- BSB I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
- NKJV I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
- NASB I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith;
- NLT I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have remained faithful.
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- 1 Tim 6:12Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
- 1 Cor 9:24–27Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.
- Heb 12:1–2Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
- Acts 20:24But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.
- Phil 3:13–14Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,
- John 4:34Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
- Rev 3:8“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.
- Luke 8:15That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produces fruit with patience.
- Rev 3:10Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
- Luke 11:28But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
- 1 Tim 6:20Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge;
- John 17:6I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.
- 1 Tim 1:18This instruction I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to you, that by them you may wage the good warfare;
- 2 Tim 1:14That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
- Prov 23:23Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
- Acts 13:25As John was fulfilling his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’
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