2 Timothy 4:5
But be thou watchful in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, give full proof of thy ministry.
1770 John Worsley NT
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In Context
4and turn away their attention from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.
6For I am now going to be sacrificed, and the time of my dissolution is near.
Cross References
Mark 13:34as a man travelling abroad, who left his house, and gave charge to his servants, to each his work, and bid the porter be watchful.
Luke 12:37Happy are those servants, whom the master when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he will gird himself, and make them sit down, and will come and serve them.
Acts 21:8On the morrow Paul and those that were with him departed from Ptolemais, and came to Cesarea; and entering into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven deacons, we 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 →