2 Timothy 4:1-8

21st Century King James Version

4 I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at His appearing and His Kingdom:

² preach the Word; be instant in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

³ For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but having itching ears, they shall heap to themselves teachers in accordance with their own lusts.

⁴ And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned toward fables.

⁵ But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill thy ministry.

⁶ For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.

⁷ I have fought a good fight; I have finished my course; I have kept the faith.

⁸ Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me on that Day — and not to me only, but unto all those also who love His appearing.