2 Timothy 4:6

As for me, the time has come for me to leave my life here on earth, so I will die some time soon. I will give my life to God.

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.

In Context

5Don’t be like those people. You have to control yourself all the time, no matter what happens to you. If they get tough on you, don’t get upset, just keep going. You have to keep on telling people the good news about Jesus, and you have to finish all the work that he gave you to do.

7I did my job properly, and I finished all the work God gave me to do. I always told the true message about Jesus. I’m like a man that runs a long race and keeps going hard right up to the finish line.

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Cross References

Genesis 50:24Then one day, Joseph said to his brothers, “I am going to die very soon. But don’t worry. God is going to help you mob in a powerful way. Yes, one day, God will take all our mob out of this country, and he will give our mob all the land in Canaan country, just like he promised to our great grand-father Abraham, and our grand-father Isaac, and our father Jacob.”

Philippians 1:23I want to do both. I want to leave this body and go to be with Jesus Christ. That will be a lot better for me.

2 Peter 1:14Our leader, Jesus Christ, told me that soon I will die. He will take me out of this body.

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 →

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