2 Timothy 4:1-5

New Matthew Bible

He exhorts Timothy to be fervent in the word and to suffer adversity, makes mention of his own death, and bids Timothy to come to him.

4 I charge you therefore before God, and before the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the quick and the dead at his appearing in his kingdom: ² preach the word; be fervent, be it in season or out of season. Refute, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and instruction.

³ For the time will come when the people will not suffer wholesome doctrine, but, after their own fancies, they (whose ears itch) will get themselves a heap of teachers, ⁴ and will turn their ears from the truth, and will be given to fables. ⁵ But as for you, watch in all things, and suffer adversity, and do the work of an evangelist. Fulfil your office to the utmost.