2 Timothy 4:5

But as for you, you must exercise habitual self-control, and not live a self-indulgent life, but do the duty of an evangelist and fully discharge the obligations of your office.

Weymouth NT (1912)

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

4and will turn away from listening to the truth and will turn aside to fables.

6I for my part am like a drink-offering which is already being poured out; and the time for my departure is now close at hand.

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Cross References

Mark 13:34It is like a man living abroad who has left his house, and given the management to his servants--to each one his special duty--and has ordered the porter to keep awake.

Luke 12:37Blessed are those servants, whom their Master when He comes shall find on the watch. I tell you in solemn truth, that He will tie an apron round Him, and will bid them recline at table while He comes and waits on them.

Acts 21:8On the morrow we left Ptolemais and went on to Caesarea, where we came to 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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