2 Timothy 4

¹I charge thee, before God and Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead, by his coming, and his kingdom:

²Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine.

³For there shall be a time, when they will not endure sound doctrine; but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears:

⁴And will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables.

⁵But be thou vigilant, labour in all things, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill thy ministry. Be sober.

⁶For I am even now ready to be sacrificed: and the time of my dissolution is at hand.

⁷I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.

⁸As to the rest, there is laid up for me a crown of justice, which the Lord the just judge will render to me in that day: and not only to me, but to them also that love his coming. Make haste to come to me quickly.

⁹For Demas hath left me, loving this world, and is gone to Thessalonica:

¹⁰Crescens into Galatia, Titus into Dalmatia.

¹¹Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.

¹²But Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.

¹³The cloak that I left at Troas, with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, especially the parchments.