I call to witness before God there fore, and the Lord Jesus Christ, being about to judge the living and the dead according to his appearance and his kingdom;

For the time will be when they will not hear sound doctrine; but according to their own eager desires they will heap up to themselves teachers, feeling itchings for a report;

Proclaim the word; keep fixed seasonably, and unseasonably; refute, censure, beseech, in all longsnffering and teaching.

I have contended earnestly the good contest, I have completed the course, I have kept the faith:

For I am already poured out, and the time of my deliverance has been fixed.

And thou be sober in all things, suffer ill treatment, do the work of the bearer of good news, render thy service perfectly certain.

Be earnest to come to me quickly

The cloak which I left in Troas with Carpus, coming, bring, and the books, chiefly the parchments.

Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus.

And Tychicus I sent to Ephesus.

Alexander the coppersmith showed me much evil: (may the Lord give back to him according to his works:)

In my first defence none was present with me, but all forsook me; (may it not be reckoned to them.)

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and save for his heavenly kingdom: to whom the glory for the times of times. Amen.

But the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the promulgation might be rendered perfectly certain, and all the nations might hear: and I was delivered out of the lion's mouth.

Whom watch thou also; for he greatly withstood our words.

As to the rest, the crown of justice is laid up for me, which the Lord will assign to me in that day, the just judge: and not only to me, but also to all them having loved his appearance.

Erastus remained in Corinth: and Trophimus I left in Miletum sick.

And truly from the truth will they turn away the hearing, and be turned aside to fictions.

The Lord Jesus Christ with thy Spirit. Grace with you. Amen.

Be earnest to come before winter Eubulus greets thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.

Luke alone is with me. Having taken Mark, bring with thyself: for he is useful for the service.

For Demas has forsaken me, having loved the time now, and has gone to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.