1 Timothy 1:18-20 - Paul's Charge To Timothy

¹⁸ These are the instructions that I intrust to you, my son Timothy, and they are in accordance with the predictions made long ago about you. Fight the good fight with their aid, ¹⁹ keeping hold of faith and a good conscience. For some people have let that go and have had their faith ruined, ²⁰ like Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I turned over to Satan, to be taught not to blaspheme.

¹ I charge you in the sight of God and Christ Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom, ² preach the message; be at it in season and out of season; convince, reprove, exhort people, with perfect patience and willingness to teach. ³ For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome instruction, but will overwhelm themselves with teachers to suit their whims and tickle their fancies, ⁴ and they will turn from listening to the truth and wander off after fictions. ⁵ But you must always be composed; do not shrink from hardship; do your work as a missionary, and your whole duty as a minister.

⁶ My life is already being poured out, and the time has come for my departure. ⁷ I have had a part in the great contest, I have run my race, I have preserved my faith. ⁸ Now the crown of uprightness awaits me, which the Lord, the upright judge, will award me on that Day, and not only me but also all who have loved and hoped for his appearing.