2 Timothy 4

¹I charge thee therefore before God, and before the Lord Iesus Christ, which shall iudge the quicke and dead at that his appearing, and in his kingdome,

²Preach the worde: be instant, in season and out of season: improue, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.

³For the time will come, when they will not suffer wholesome doctrine: but hauing their eares itching, shall after their owne lustes get them an heape of teachers,

⁴And shall turne their eares from the trueth, and shalbe giuen vnto fables.

⁵But watch thou in all thinges: suffer aduersitie: doe the worke of an Euangelist: cause thy ministerie to be throughly liked of.

⁶For I am nowe readie to be offered, and the time of my departing is at hand.

⁷I haue fought a good fight, and haue finished my course: I haue kept the faith.

⁸For hence foorth is laide vp for me the crowne of righteousnesse, which the Lord the righteous iudge shall giue me at that day: and not to me onely, but vnto all them also that loue that his appearing.

⁹Make speede to come vnto me at once:

¹⁰For Demas hath forsaken me, and hath embraced this present world, and is departed vnto Thessalonica. Crescens is gone to Galatia, Titus vnto Dalmatia.

¹¹Onely Luke is with me. Take Marke and bring him with thee: for he is profitable vnto me to minister.

¹²And Tychicus haue I sent to Ephesus.

¹³The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou commest, bring with thee, and the bookes, but specially the parchments.