^4:9Make every effort to come to me soon. ^4:10For Demas deserted me, since he loved¹³ the present age, and he went to Thessalonica.¹⁴ Crescens went to Galatia and Titus to Dalmatia. ^4:11Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is a great help¹⁵ to me in ministry.¹⁶^4:12Now I have sent Tychicus to Ephesus.¹⁷^4:13When you come, bring with you the cloak I left in Troas with Carpas and the scrolls, especially the parchments. ^4:14Alexander the coppersmith did me a great deal of harm.¹⁸ The Lord will repay him in keeping with his deeds.¹⁹^4:15You be on guard against him²⁰ too, because he vehemently opposed our words. ^4:16At my first defense no one appeared in my support; instead they all deserted me—may they not be held accountable for it. ^4:17But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message²¹ would be fully proclaimed²² for all the Gentiles to hear. And so I was delivered from the lion’s mouth! ^4:18The Lord will deliver me from every evil deed and will bring me safely²³ into his heavenly kingdom. To him²⁴ be glory for ever and ever!²⁵ Amen.

^4:19Greetings to²⁶ Prisca and Aquila²⁷ and the family of Onesiphorus. ^4:20Erastus stayed in Corinth.²⁸ Trophimus I left ill in Miletus. ^4:21Make every effort to come before winter. Greetings to you from Eubulus, Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers and sisters.²⁹^4:22The Lord³⁰ be with your spirit. Grace be with you.³¹

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Footnotes

13 Grk “having loved.”
14 For location see ; ; ; .
15 Grk “useful.”
16 Or “in serving me.”
17 For location see ; ; ; .
18 Grk “showed me much evil.”
19 An allusion to Ps 28:4.
20 Grk “against whom,” as a continuation of the previous clause. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
21 Or “the preaching.”
22 Grk “might be completely fulfilled.”
23 Grk “save me.”
24 Grk “to whom.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
25 Grk “unto the ages of the ages,” an emphatic way of speaking about eternity in Greek.
26 Grk “greet.”
27 On Prisca and Aquila see also Acts 18:2, 18, 26; Rom 16:3–4; 1 Cor 16:19. In the NT “Priscilla” and “Prisca” are the same person. The author of Acts uses the full name Priscilla, while Paul uses the diminutive form Prisca.
28 For location see ; ; ; .
29 Grk “brothers,” but the Greek word may be used for “brothers and sisters” or “fellow Christians” as here (cf. ἀδελφός 1, where considerable nonbiblical evidence for the plural ἀδελφοί [adelphoi] meaning “brothers and sisters” is cited).
30 The reading ὁ κύριος (ho kurios, “the Lord”) is well supported by א* F G 33 1739 1881 sa, but predictable expansions on the text have occurred at this point: A 104 614 read ὁ κύριος Ἰησοῦς (ho kurios Iēsous, “the Lord Jesus”), while א2 C D Ψ 𝔐 sy bo have ὁ κύριος Ἰησοῦς Χριστός (ho kurios Iēsous Christos, “the Lord Jesus Christ”). As B. M. Metzger notes, although in a late book such as 2 Timothy, one might expect the fuller title for the Lord, accidental omission of nomina sacra is rare ( ). The shorter reading is thus preferred on both external and internal grounds.
31 Most witnesses (א2 D Ψ 𝔐 lat sy) conclude this letter with ἀμήν (amēn, “amen”). Such a conclusion is routinely added by scribes to NT books because a few of these books originally had such an ending (cf. Rom 16:27; Gal 6:18; Jude 25). A majority of Greek witnesses have the concluding ἀμήν in every NT book except Acts, James, and 3 John (and even in these books, ἀμήν is found in some witnesses). It is thus a predictable variant. Further, there are several excellent witnesses of the Alexandrian and Western texts (א* A C F G 6 33 81 1739* 1881 sa) that lack the particle, rendering the omission the preferred reading.