What Does “fight the good fight” mean?
Definition:
If you fight the good fight, you try very hard to do what is right so as to have a clean conscience.
The origin of this idiom comes from the Bible, Timothy 6.12 (King James Version):
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
The phrase was also quoted in a classic favorite hymn and Christian song written by Rev. John Samuel Bewley Monsell and published in Hymns of Love and Praise for the Church’s Year (1863):
Fight the good fight with all thy might;
Christ is thy Strength, and Christ thy Right;
Lay hold on life, and it shall be
Thy joy and crown eternally.
Example(s)
He said what he had to say. He fought the good fight and left with a clear conscience.
