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title: 2 Timothy 4
slug: kjv-nt/2-timothy-4
createdAt: 2024-09-11T02:53:41.079Z
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**1 **I charge *thee* therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; **2 **Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. **3 **For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; **4 **And they shall turn away *their* ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. **5 **But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

**6 **For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. **7 **I have fought a good fight, I have finished *my* course, I have kept the faith: **8 **Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

**9 **Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me: **10 **For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. **11 **Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry. **12 **And Tychicus have I sent to Ephesus. **13 **The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring *with thee*, and the books, *but* especially the parchments. **14 **Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works: **15 **Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words.

**16 **At my first answer no man stood with me, but all *men* forsook me: *I pray God* that it may not be laid to their charge. **17 **Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and *that* all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. **18 **And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve *me* unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom *be* glory for ever and ever. Amen.

**19 **Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus. **20 **Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick. **21 **Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.

**22 **The Lord Jesus Christ *be* with thy spirit. Grace *be* with you. Amen. \{*The second epistle unto Timotheus, ordained the first bishop of the church of the Ephesians, was written from Rome, when Paul was brought before Nero the second time.*}