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1 ) I charge you therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom,
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2 ) Preach the word, be instant in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
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3 ) For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears,
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4 ) And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
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5 ) But watch you in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of your ministry.
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6 ) For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
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7 ) I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
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8 ) Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
