1. I charge you therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2. Preach the word; be diligent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
3. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they draw to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4. And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto myths.
5. But you watch in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fully carry out your ministry.
6. For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.