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Pick up Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_timothy/4-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>But Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_timothy/4-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>When you come bring the cloak which I left at Troas with Carpus, and the books, especially the parchments. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_timothy/4-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Alexander the coppersmith did me much harm; the Lord will repay him according to his deeds. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_timothy/4-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>Be on guard against him yourself, for he vigorously opposed our teaching. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_timothy/4-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>At my first defense no one supported me, but all deserted me; may it not be counted against them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_timothy/4-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that through me the proclamation might be fully accomplished, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was rescued out of the lions mouth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_timothy/4-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed, and will bring me safely to His heavenly kingdom; to Him <i>be</i> the glory forever and ever. Amen. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_timothy/4-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_timothy/4-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>Erastus remained at Corinth, but Trophimus I left sick at Miletus. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_timothy/4-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Make every effort to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, also Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brethren. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_timothy/4-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/2_timothy/4.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Give diligence to come shortly unto me:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/2_timothy/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />For Demas hath left me, loving this world, and is gone to Thessalonica: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/2_timothy/4.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />Use diligence to come to me quickly;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/2_timothy/4.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/2_timothy/4.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Do thy diligence to come shortly to me:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/2_timothy/4.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />Make an effort to come to me speedily.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/2_timothy/4.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Be diligent to come to me soon,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/2_timothy/4.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Be diligent to come unto me quickly,<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newman/parochial_and_plain_sermons_vol_viii/sermon_xiii_truth_hidden_when.htm">Truth Hidden when not Sought After. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"They shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables."--2 Tim. iv. 4. From these words of the blessed Apostle, written shortly before he suffered martyrdom, we learn, that there is such a thing as religious truth, and therefore there is such a thing as religious error. We learn that religious truth is one--and therefore that all views of religion but one are wrong. And we learn, moreover, that so it was to be (for his words are a prophecy) that professed Christians, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newman/parochial_and_plain_sermons_vol_viii/sermon_xiii_truth_hidden_when.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Henry Newman—</span><span class="citation2">Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_17_1871/a_last_look-out.htm">A Last Look-Out</a><br></span><span class="snippet">We have mainly to do with the second description which he gives of his death. What does he say when the hour that this grim monster must be grappled with is at hand? I do not find him sad. Those who delight in gloomy poetry have often represented death in terrible language. "It is hard," says one-- To feel the hand of death arrest one's steps, Throw a chill blight on all one's budding hopes, And hurl one's soul untimely to the shades." And another exclaims-- "O God, it is a fearful thing To see the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_17_1871/a_last_look-out.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 17: 1871</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/winkworth/the_history_and_life_of_the_reverend_doctor_john_tauler/xxvi_sermon_for_st_peters.htm">Sermon for St. Peter's Day</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Of brotherly rebuke and admonition, how far it is advisable and seemly or not, and especially how prelates and governors ought to demean themselves toward their subjects. 2 Tim. iv. 2.--"Reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and doctrine." THIS is the lesson which St. Paul gives to his beloved disciple Timothy, whom he set to rule over men, and it equally behoves all pastors of souls and magistrates, to possess these two things,--long-suffering and doctrine. First, it is their office to <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/winkworth/the_history_and_life_of_the_reverend_doctor_john_tauler/xxvi_sermon_for_st_peters.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Susannah Winkworth—</span><span class="citation2">The History and Life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/milligan/men_of_the_bible_some_lesser-known/demas.htm">Demas</a><br></span><span class="snippet">BY REV. PRINCIPAL DAVID ROWLANDS, B.A. Many a man who figures in history, is only known in connection with some stupendous fault--some mistake, some folly, or some sin--that has given him an unenviable immortality. Mention his name, and the huge blot by which his memory is besmirched starts up before the mind in all its hideousness. Take Cain, for example. He occupies the foremost rank as regards fame; his name is one of the first that children learn to lisp; and yet what do we know about him? <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/milligan/men_of_the_bible_some_lesser-known/demas.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">George Milligan—</span><span class="citation2">Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_acts_of_the_apostles/lesson_47_the_final_arrest.htm">The Final Arrest</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Paul's work among the churches after his acquittal at Rome, could not escape the observation of his enemies. Since the beginning of the persecution under Nero the Christians had everywhere been a proscribed sect. After a time the unbelieving Jews conceived the idea of fastening upon Paul the crime of instigating the burning of Rome. Not one of them thought for a moment that he was guilty; but they knew that such a charge, made with the faintest show of plausibility, would seal his doom. Through their <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_acts_of_the_apostles/lesson_47_the_final_arrest.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Acts of the Apostles</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_acts_of_the_apostles/lesson_48_paul_before_nero.htm">Paul Before Nero</a><br></span><span class="snippet">When Paul was summoned to appear before the emperor Nero for trial, it was with the near prospect of certain death. The serious nature of the crime charged against him, and the prevailing animosity toward Christians, left little ground for hope of a favorable issue. Among the Greeks and Romans it was customary to allow an accused person the privilege of employing an advocate to plead in his behalf before courts of justice. By force of argument, by impassioned eloquence, or by entreaties, prayers, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_acts_of_the_apostles/lesson_48_paul_before_nero.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Acts of the Apostles</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/duff/the_bible_in_its_making/chapter_xii_some_other_writers.htm">Some Other Writers of the New Testament</a><br></span><span class="snippet">[Illustration: (drop cap L) Ancient engraving of man reading scroll] Let us now look at the rest of the books which make up the New Testament. In the days when Paul preached at Athens, the old capital of Greece, much of the ancient splendour and power of the Greek people had passed away, for the Romans had conquered their country, and they were no longer a free nation. Yet, although the Greeks had been forced to yield to Rome, their conquerors knew that the Grecian scholars and artists were far <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/duff/the_bible_in_its_making/chapter_xii_some_other_writers.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Mildred Duff—</span><span class="citation2">The Bible in its Making</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gregory/the_epistles_of_saint_gregory_the_great/epistle_liii_to_john_bishop.htm">Epistle Liii. To John, Bishop. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">To John, Bishop. Gregory to John, Bishop of Constantinople [1503] . Though consideration of the case moves me, yet charity also impels me to write, since I have written once and again to my most holy brother the lord John, but have received no letter from him. For some one else, a secular person, addressed me under his name; seeing that, if those were really his letters, I have not been vigilant, having believed of him something far different from what I have found. For I had written about the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gregory/the_epistles_of_saint_gregory_the_great/epistle_liii_to_john_bishop.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Gregory the Great—</span><span class="citation2">the Epistles of Saint Gregory the Great</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the_works_of_john_bunyan_volumes_1-3/pauls_departure_and_crown.htm">Paul's Departure and Crown;</a><br></span><span class="snippet">OR, AN EXPOSITION UPON 2 TIM. IV. 6-8 ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR How great and glorious is the Christian's ultimate destiny--a kingdom and a crown! Surely it hath not entered into the heart of man to conceive what ear never heard, nor mortal eye ever saw? the mansions of the blest--the realms of glory--'a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.' For whom can so precious an inheritance be intended? How are those treated in this world who are entitled to so glorious, so exalted, so eternal, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the_works_of_john_bunyan_volumes_1-3/pauls_departure_and_crown.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Bunyan—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings_of_leo_the_great/chapter_xvi_how_the_meek.htm">How the Meek and the Passionate are to be Admonished. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">(Admonition 17.) Differently to be admonished are the meek and the passionate. For sometimes the meek, when they are in authority, suffer from the torpor of sloth, which is a kindred disposition, and as it were placed hard by. And for the most part from the laxity of too great gentleness they soften the force of strictness beyond need. But on the other hand the passionate, in that they are swept on into frenzy of mind by the impulse of anger, break up the calm of quietness, and so throw into <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings_of_leo_the_great/chapter_xvi_how_the_meek.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Leo the Great—</span><span class="citation2">Writings of Leo the Great</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/a_fulfilled_aspiration.htm">A Fulfilled Aspiration</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'So that I might finish my course....'--ACTS xx. 24. 'I have finished my course....'--2 TIM. iv. 7. I do not suppose that Paul in prison, and within sight of martyrdom, remembered his words at Ephesus. But the fact that what was aspiration whilst he was in the very thick of his difficulties came to be calm retrospect at the close is to me very beautiful and significant. 'So that I may finish my course,' said he wistfully; whilst before him there lay dangers clearly discerned and others that had all <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/a_fulfilled_aspiration.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/2_timothy/4-9.htm">2 Timothy 4:9 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/2_timothy/4-9.htm">2 Timothy 4:9 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/2_timothy/4-9.htm">2 Timothy 4:9 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/2_timothy/4-9.htm">2 Timothy 4:9 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/2_timothy/4-9.htm">2 Timothy 4:9 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/2_timothy/4-9.htm">2 Timothy 4:9 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/2_timothy/4-9.htm">2 Timothy 4:9 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../2_timothy/4-8.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Timothy 4:8"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Timothy 4:8" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_timothy/4-10.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Timothy 4:10"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Timothy 4:10" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/2_timothy/4-9.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>