2 Timothy 4:1-8 ▼

1 I fully testify, then, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is about to judge [the] living and dead at His appearing and His Kingdom—

2 preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season; convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,

3 for there will be a season when they will not endure the sound teaching, but they will heap up teachers according to their own desires—having an itching ear,

4 and, indeed, they will turn away from hearing the truth, and they will be turned aside to the fables.

5 But you—watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; make full assurance of your ministry,

6 for I am already being poured out, and the time of my release has arrived;

7 I have striven the good strife, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith;

8 from now on there is laid up for me the garland of righteousness that the LORD—the Righteous Judge—will give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving His appearing.