2 Timothy 4:3-7

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³ For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, ⁴ and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths. ⁵ As for you, always be steady, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil your ministry.

⁶ For I am already on the point of being sacrificed;^[a] the time of my departure has come. ⁷ I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.