1. I do fully testify, then, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is about to judge living and dead at his manifestation and his reign--
2. preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,
3. for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers--itching in the hearing,
4. and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside.
5. And thou--watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; of thy ministration make full assurance,
6. for I am already being poured out, and the time of my release hath arrived;
7. the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,