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1 I call to witness before God there fore, and the Lord Jesus Christ, being about to judge the living and the dead according to his appearance and his kingdom; 2 Proclaim the word; keep fixed seasonably, and unseasonably; refute, censure, beseech, in all longsuffering and teaching. 3 For the time will be when they will not hear sound doctrine; but according to their own eager desires they will heap up to themselves teachers, feeling itchings for a report; 4 And truly from the truth will they turn away the hearing, and be turned aside to fictions. 5 And thou be sober in all things, suffer ill treatment, do the work of the bearer of good news, render thy service perfectly certain. 6 For I am already poured out, and the time of my deliverance has been fixed. 7 I have contended earnestly the good contest, I have completed the course, I have kept the faith: 8 As to the rest, the crown of justice is laid up for me, which the Lord will assign to me in that day, the just judge: and not only to me, but also to all them having loved his appearance. 2 Timothy 4:1-8, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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