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[1]I charge thee, before God, and our Lord Jesus the Messiah, who is to judge the living and the dead, at the manifestation of his kingdom,
[2]Proclaim the word; and persist [in it] with diligence, in time and out of time; admonish, and rebuke, with all patience and instructiveness.
[3]For the time will come, when they will not give ear to sound teaching; but, according to their lusts, will multiply to themselves teachers, in the itching of their hearing;
[4]and will turn away their ears from the truth, and incline after fables.
[5]But be thou vigilant in all things; and endure evils, and do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill thy ministry.
[6]But I am soon to be immolated; and the time of my dissolution hath come.
[7]I have fought a good combat, I have completed my race, I have preserved my fidelity;
[8]and henceforth there is preserved for me a crown of righteousness, with which my Lord, the righteous Judge, will recompense me in that day; and not me only, but them also who love his manifestation.
[9]Exert thyself to come to me quickly.
[10]For Demas hath left me; and hath loved this world and gone away to Thessalonica; Crispus to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
[11]Luke only is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee; for he is suitable for me, for ministration.
[12]And Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.
[13]And when thou comest, bring the bookcase, which I left at Troas with Carpus, and the books, but especially the roll of parchments.
[14]Alexander the coppersmith showed me many ills: our Lord will reward him according to his doings.
[15]And do thou also beware of him; for he is very insolent against our words.
[16]At my first defence, no one was with me, but they all forsook me. Let not this be reckoned to them.
[17]But my Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fulfilled; and [that] all the Gentiles might hear: and I was rescued from the mouth of the lion.
[18]And my Lord will rescue me from every evil work; and will give me life in his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory, for ever and ever. Amen.
[19]Present a salutation to Priscilla and Aquila, and to the household of Onesiphorus.
[20]Erastus hath stopped at Corinth; and Trophimus I left sick at the city of Miletus.
[21]Exert thyself to come before winter. Eubulus saluteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.
[22]Our Lord Jesus the Messiah be with thy spirit. Grace be with thee. Amen.
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