2 Timothy 4:8
As to the rest, there is laid up for me a crown of justice, which the Lord the just judge will render to me in that day: and not only to me, but to them also that love his coming. Make haste to come to me quickly.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
7I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.
9For Demas hath left me, loving this world, and is gone to Thessalonica:
Cross References
Psalms 7:11Just is my help from the Lord: who saveth the upright of heart.
Proverbs 4:9She shall give to thy head increase of graces, and protect thee with a noble crown.
Matthew 6:19Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust, and moth consume, and where thieves break through and steal.
Matthew 24:36But of that day and hour no one knoweth, not the angels of heaven, but the Father alone.
Romans 2:5But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath, and revelation of the just judgment of God.
1 Corinthians 2:9But, as it is written: That eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that 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 →