2 Timothy 4:1-8 ▼

1 I command you therefore before God and Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his Kingdom:

2 preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; correct, rebuke, and encourage with patience and instruction.

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 myths.

5 But you be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, 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.