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