2 Timothy 4:1–8

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, ⁶for I am already being poured out, and the time of my release hath arrived; ⁷the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept, ⁸henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord—the Righteous Judge—shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.