2 Timothy 4 King James Version 1611

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• 1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Iesus Christ, who shall iudge the quicke and the dead at his appearing, and his kingdome:
• 2 Preach the word, be instant in season, out of season, reprooue, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering & doctrine.
• 3 For the time wil come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their owne lusts shall they heape to themselues teachers, hauing itching eares:
• 4 And they shall turne away their eares from the trueth, and shall be turned vnto fables.
• 5 But watch thou in all things, indure afflictions, doe the worke of an Euangelist, make full proofe of thy ministery.
• 6 For I am now readie to bee offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
• 7 I haue fought a good fight, I haue finished my course, I haue kept the faith.
• 8 Hencefoorth there is layde vp for me a crowne of righteousnesse, which the Lord the righteous iudge shall giue me at that day: and not to me only, but vnto them also that loue his appearing.
• 9 Doe thy diligence to come shortly vnto me:
• 10 For Demas hath forsaken me, hauing loued this present world, and is departed vnto Thessalonica: Crescens to Galatia, Titus vnto Dalmatia.
• 11 Onely Luke is with me. Take Marke and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministerie.
• 12 And Tychicus haue I sent to Ephesus.
• 13 The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou commest, bring with thee, but especially the parchments.
• 14 Alexander the Coppersmith did mee much euill, the Lord reward him according to his works.
• 15 Of whom bee thou ware also, for he hath greatly withstood our words.
• 16 At my first answere no man stood with mee, but all men forsooke mee: I pray God that it may not bee laid to their charge.
• 17 Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me, that by me the preaching might be fully knowen, and that all the Gentiles might heare: and I was deliuered out of the mouth of the Lyon.
• 18 And the Lord shall deliuer mee from euery euill worke, and will preserue me vnto his heauenly kingdome; to whom bee glory for euer, and euer. Amen.
• 19 Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the houshold of Onesiphorus.
• 29 Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus haue I left at Miletum sicke.
• 21 Doe thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.
• 22 The Lord Iesus Christ bee with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen. [The second Epistle vnto Timotheus, ordeined the first Bishop of the Church of the Ephesians, was written from Rome, when Paul was brought before Nero the second time.]