2 Timothy 4:8
Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me in that day, and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
7I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.
Cross References
Psalms 7:11God is a righteous judge. Yea, a God who has indignation every day.
Proverbs 4:9She will give to thy head a garland of grace, a crown of beauty she will deliver to thee.
Matthew 6:19Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust deteriorates, and where thieves break through and steal,
Matthew 24:36But about that day and hour no man knows, not even the agents of the heavens, except my Father only.
Romans 2:5But according to thy hardness, and thy impenitent heart, thou store up wrath to thyself in the day of wrath, and revelation, and righteous judgment of God,
1 Corinthians 2:9But as it is written, What an eye has not seen, and an ear has not heard, and have not arisen in a heart of a man, are things that God prepared for those who love him.
Matthew Henry on 2 Timothy 4:2-9
Ministerial Duties; The Apostle's Joyful Expectation. ( a. d. 66.) 1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2 Preach the word; be instant 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 heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from… Read the whole commentary →