디모데후서 4:7
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
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Study Note
Paul's triple athletic and military metaphor — 'I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith' — is delivered from prison, framing the apostolic life as a completed contest awaiting its prize. The perfect tense of all three verbs in Greek signals completed action with abiding result, an assessment made from the finish line rather than mid-course. 'Kept the faith' (ten pistin tetireka) carries the sense of guarding a trust or deposit, picking up the 'deposit' language of 1:12 and 1:14, where Paul speaks of entrusting the gospel to God's keeping and to Timothy's. The verse stands as one of the most moving personal testimonies in the New Testament and has shaped Christian conceptions of faithfulness as lifelong perseverance rather than momentary decision.
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