2 Proclaim the Word! Be urgent in season, out of season. Reprove, warn, appeal, with all patience and teaching.
3 For there shall be a time when they shall not bear sound teaching, but according to their own desires, they shall heap up for themselves teachers tickling the ear,
4 and they shall indeed turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to myths.
5 But you be sober in all matters, suffer hardships, do the work of an evangelist, accomplish your service completely.
6 For I am already being poured out, and the time of my departure has arrived.
7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have guarded the belief.
8 For the rest, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Master, the righteous Judge, shall give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all those loving His appearing.