Reference: Timothy, Second Epistle To
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was probably written a year or so after the first, and from Rome, where Paul was for a second time a prisoner, and was sent to Timothy by the hands of Tychicus. In it he entreats Timothy to come to him before winter, and to bring Mark with him (comp. Php 2:22). He was anticipating that "the time of his departure was at hand" (2Ti 4:6), and he exhorts his "son Timothy" to all diligence and steadfastness, and to patience under persecution (2Ti 1:6-15), and to a faithful discharge of all the duties of his office (2Ti 4:1-5), with all the solemnity of one who was about to appear before the Judge of quick and dead.
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you know he has stood the test, and has serv'd with me in the gospel, as a son serves with his father.
For which reason I remind you to exert the divine gifts you received, when I gave you the imposition of hands. for the spirit, which God has given us, is not a spirit of timidity, but of fortitude, of benevolence, and of moderation. read more. be not therefore asham'd of the testimony of the Lord, nor of me who am a prisoner upon his account. but share with me in the afflictions, which attend the gospel, supported as you are by the power of God, who has saved us, and by the gospel hath called us to holiness, not in consideration of our works, but in pursuance of his own resolution, and the favour, which having been promised us by Jesus Christ several ages ago, has now been display'd by the coming of Jesus Christ our saviour, who has defeated the power of death, by bringing a life of immortality to light thro' the gospel. For this I was establish'd the herald, the apostle, and doctor of the Gentiles. this has drawn upon me the evils I suffer. yet I am not ashamed, for I know in whom I have confided, and I am persuaded he is able to keep what I have committed to him against that day. Keep that form of sound doctrine you receiv'd from me, which consists in christian faith and charity: that valuable depositum do you preserve by the holy spirit, which resides in us. You know that I have been abandon'd by all the Asiatics, by Phygellus and Hermogenes among the rest.
I conjure you in the name of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is to judge the living and the dead, at his appearance in his kingdom, to preach the word with assiduity upon all occasions: reprove, censure, exhort, with the most tender persuasions. read more. for the time will come, when they will not endure sound doctrine, but get teachers of their own corrupt taste, to sooth their ears that itch for flattery: which, while they are deaf to the truth, attentively listen to fables. be you then entirely upon the watch: be insensible to toil: perform the work of an evangelist, and discharge your ministerial function. as for me, my blood will soon be pour'd out, and the time of my departure draws nigh: