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| [1]I 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 -- |
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| [2]preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching, |
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| [3]for 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, |
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| [4]and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside. |
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| [5]And thou -- watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; of thy ministration make full assurance, |
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| [6]for I am already being poured out, and the time of my release hath arrived; |
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| [7]the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept, |
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| [8]henceforth 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. |
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| [9]Be diligent to come unto me quickly, |
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| [10]for Demas forsook me, having loved the present age, and went on to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia, |
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| [11]Lukas only is with me; Markus having taken, bring with thyself, for he is profitable to me for ministration; |
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| [12]and Tychicus I sent to Ephesus; |
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| [13]the cloak that I left in Troas with Carpus, coming, bring thou and the books -- especially the parchments. |
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| [14]Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil; may the Lord repay to him according to his works, |
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| [15]of whom also do thou beware, for greatly hath he stood against our words; |
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| [16]in my first defence no one stood with me, but all forsook me, (may it not be reckoned to them!) |
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| [17]and the Lord stood by me, and did strengthen me, that through me the preaching might be fully assured, and all the nations might hear, and I was freed out of the mouth of a lion, |
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| [18]and the Lord shall free me from every evil work, and shall save [me] -- to his heavenly kingdom; to whom [is] the glory to the ages of the ages! Amen. |
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| [19]Salute Prisca and Aquilas, and Onesiphorus' household; |
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| [20]Erastus did remain in Corinth, and Trophimus I left in Miletus infirm; |
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| [21]be diligent to come before winter. Salute thee doth Eubulus, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren. |
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| [22]The Lord Jesus Christ [is] with thy spirit; the grace [is] with you! Amen. |
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