Fulfill Your Ministry

4 I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge m the living and the dead, n and because of His appearing and His kingdom: o 2 Proclaim the message; persist in it whether convenient or not; rebuke, correct, and encourage with great patience and teaching. 3 For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine, p but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear something new. q 4 They will turn away from hearing the truth and will turn aside to myths. r 5 But as for you, be serious about everything, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, s fulfill your ministry.

6 For I am already being poured out as a * drink offering, t and the time for my departure is close. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 There is reserved for me in the future the crown u of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, v will give me on that day, and not only to me, but to all those who have loved His appearing. w