4I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge ^mthe living and the dead, ⁿand because of His appearing and His kingdom: ^o²Proclaim the message; persist in it whether convenient or not; rebuke, correct, and encourage with great patience and teaching. ³For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine, ^pbut according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear something new. ^q⁴They will turn away from hearing the truth and will turn aside to myths. ^r⁵But as for you, be serious about everything, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, ^sfulfill your ministry.

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

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2 Timothy 4:2: … preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.

Footnotes

q4:3 Or to hear what they want to hear; themselves, itching in the hearing

Cross references

m4:1 Jn 5:22–30; Rm 5:18; 1Pt 4:5
n4:1 Jn 5:25; Rm 14:9; 1Pt 4:5; Rv 18:8; 19:11
o4:1 Mk 1:15; Ac 20:25
p4:3 Rm 15:4
r4:4 1Tm 1:4; 4:7; Ti 1:14; 2Pt 1:16
s4:5 Ac 21:8; Eph 4:11
t4:6 Gn 35:14; Php 2:17
u4:8 Jn 15:17; Rv 12:1
v4:8 Lk 18:2, 6; Jn 5:22–30; Ac 10:42; Heb 12:23
w4:8 Ti 2:13; 1Jn 2:28