2 Timothy 4:6
For I am even now ready to be sacrificed: and the time of my dissolution is at hand.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
In Context
7I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.
Cross References
Genesis 50:24And he made them swear to him, saying: God will visit you, Carry my bones with you out of this place:
Deuteronomy 31:14And the Lord said to Moses: Behold the days of thy death are nigh: call Josue, and stand ye in the tabernacle of the testimony, that I may give him a charge. So Moses and Josue went and stood in the tabernacle of the testimony:
Philippians 1:23But I am straitened between two: having a desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ, a thing by far the better.
2 Peter 1:14Being assured that the laying away of this my tabernacle is at hand, according as our Lord Jesus Christ also hath signified to me.
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 →