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  • 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:
  • 2. preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.
  • 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. and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to fables.
  • 5. But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
  • 6. For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.
  • 7. I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
  • 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.
  • 9. Be diligent to come to me soon,
  • 10. for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
  • 11. Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service.
  • 12. But I sent Tychicus to Ephesus.
  • 13. Bring the cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus when you come, and the books, especially the parchments.
  • 14. Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his works,
  • 15. of whom you also must beware; for he greatly opposed our words.
  • 16. At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 19. Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus.
  • 20. Erastus remained at Corinth, but I left Trophimus at Miletus sick.
  • 21. Be diligent to come before winter. Eubulus salutes you, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.
  • 22. The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.