2 Timothy 4:5

But as for you, be always self-controlled, face hardships, do the work of a missionary, discharge all the duties of your ministry.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

In Context

4They will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to myths.

6I for my part am a libation already being poured in sacrifice; and the time of my unmooring is at hand.

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Cross References

Mark 13:34Take heed! Awake! for you never know the time. As a man gone abroad and leaving his house gives authority to his slaves, to each his task;

Luke 12:37"Happy are those slaves whom their master shall find watching when he comes. I tell you truly that will gird himself, and make them sit down to meat, and come and serve them.

Acts 21:8On the morrow we started for Caesarea, where we went into the house of Philip, the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with 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 →

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