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2 Timothy 4:7

In 9 translations

BSB: I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
KJV: I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
WEB: I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
ASV: I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith:
LSV: I have striven the good strife, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith;
YLT: the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,
DBY: I have combated the good combat, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
DRC: I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.
GNV: I haue fought a good fight, and haue finished my course: I haue kept the faith.

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Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (3)

Word order: Textus Receptus, Byzantine text place τὸν elsewhere in this verse.
Word order: Textus Receptus, Byzantine text place καλὸν elsewhere in this verse.
In STEPBible’s comparison, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include τὸν (“the”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles do not include this wording.

SBLGNT apparatus (1)

A comparison of published Greek editions. “Add” means after the SBLGNT wording; “omit” refers to that wording.

SBLGNT: καλὸν ἀγῶνα. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read καλὸν ἀγῶνα; Robinson–Pierpont read ἀγῶνα τὸν καλὸν.

Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.

Original-language editions

SBLGNT: τὸν καλὸν ἀγῶνα ἠγώνισμαι, τὸν δρόμον τετέλεκα, τὴν πίστιν τετήρηκα·
RP2018: Τὸν ἀγῶνα τὸν καλὸν ἠγώνισμαι, τὸν δρόμον τετέλεκα, τὴν πίστιν τετήρηκα·
TR-Boyd: Τὸν ἀγῶνα τὸν καλὸν ἠγώνισμαι, τὸν δρόμον τετέλεκα, τὴν πίστιν τετήρηκα·
SCR1894: τον αγωνα τον καλον ηγωνισμαι τον δρομον τετελεκα την πιστιν τετηρηκα

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

Assurance Games Faith Fight of Faith Agony Revelation of Christ Course Perseverance Roman Empire, The Immortal; Immortality

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

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.
1 Corinthians 9:24–27Do 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. Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that…
Hebrews 12:1–2Therefore, 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. Let us fix our eyes…
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.
Philippians 3:13–14Brothers, 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, I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God’s heavenly calling…
John 4:34Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
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.
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.
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.
Luke 11:28But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
1 Timothy 6:20O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid irreverent, empty chatter and the opposing arguments of so-called “knowledge,”
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,
2 Timothy 1:14Guard the treasure entrusted to you, with the help of the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
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.
Proverbs 23:23Invest in truth and never sell it— in wisdom and instruction and understanding.
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.’

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).