2 Timothy Chapter 4 Back{4:1} I command you therefore before God and the Lord
Jesus Christ, who will
judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:
{4:2} preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.
{4:3} For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own
lusts;
{4:4} and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to
fables.
{4:5} But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an
evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
{4:6} For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.
{4:7} I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
{4:8} From now on, there is stored up for me the
crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.
{4:9} Be diligent to come to me soon,
{4:10} for
Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica;
Crescens to
Galatia, and Titus to
Dalmatia.
{4:11} Only
Luke is with me. Take
Mark, and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service.
{4:12} But I sent Tychicus to
Ephesus.
{4:13} Bring the
cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus when you come, and the books, especially the parchments.
{4:14}
Alexander, the
coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his works,
{4:15} of whom you also must beware; for he greatly opposed our words.
{4:16} At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.
{4:17} But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the
Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the
lion.
{4:18} And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom; to whom be the glory forever and ever.
Amen.
{4:19} Greet Prisca and
Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus.
{4:20}
Erastus remained at
Corinth, but I left Trophimus at
Miletus sick.
{4:21} Be diligent to come before winter. Eubulus salutes you, as do Pudens, Linus,
Claudia, and all the
brothers.
{4:22} The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
Grace be with you. Amen.
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