2 Timothy 3:14–4:5

¹⁴And thou—be remaining in the things which thou didst learn and wast entrusted with, having known from whom thou didst learn, ¹⁵and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise—to salvation, through faith that is in Christ Jesus; ¹⁶every Writing is God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that is in righteousness, ¹⁷that the man of God may be fitted—for every good work having been completed.

Chapter 4

¹I do fully testify, then, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is about to judge living and dead at his manifestation and his reign— ²preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching, ³for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers—itching in the hearing, ⁴and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside. ⁵And thou—watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; of thy ministration make full assurance,