2 Timothy 4

¹I do fully testify, then, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is about to judge living and dead at his manifestation and his reign —

²preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,

³for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers — itching in the hearing,

⁴and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside.

⁵And thou — watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; of thy ministration make full assurance,

⁶for I am already being poured out, and the time of my release hath arrived;

⁷the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

⁸henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord — the Righteous Judge — shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.

⁹Be diligent to come unto me quickly,

¹⁰for Demas forsook me, having loved the present age, and went on to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia,

¹¹Lukas only is with me; Markus having taken, bring with thyself, for he is profitable to me for ministration;

¹²and Tychicus I sent to Ephesus;

the cloak that I left in Troas with Carpus, coming, bring thou and the books — especially the parchments.