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¹ I testifye therfore before God & before the LORDE Iesu Christ, which shal come to iudge the lyuynge and the deed, at his appearynge in his kyngdome:² Preach thou the worde, be feruent, be it in season or out of season: Improue, rebuke, exhorte with all longe sufferynge and doctryne.³ For the tyme wil come, whan they shal not suffre wholsome doctryne, but after their awne lustes shal they (whose eares ytche) get them an heape of teachers,⁴ and shal turne their eares from the trueth, and shalbe geuen vnto fables.⁵ But watch thou in all thinges, suffre aduersite, do the worke of a preacher of the Gospell, fulfyll thine office vnto the vttemost.⁶ For I am now ready to be offered, and the tyme of my departinge is at honde.⁷ I haue foughte a good fighte: I haue fulfylled the course: I haue kepte the faith.⁸ From hence forth there is layed vp for me a crowne of righteousnes, which the LORDE the righteous iudge shal geue me in yt daye: Howbeit not vnto me onely, but vnto all them that loue his comynge.

⁹ Make spede to come vnto me atonce.¹⁰ For Demas hath lefte me, and loueth this present worlde, and is departed vnto Tessalonica, Crescens in to Galacia, Titus vnto Dalmacia,¹¹ Onely Lucas is with me. Take Marke, & brynge him with the: for he is profitable vnto me to the mynistracion.¹² Tichicus haue I sent to Ephesus.¹³ The cloke that I lefte at Troada with Carpus brynge with the whan thou commest: and the bokes, but specially the parchemet.¹⁴ Alexader the coppersmyth dyd me moch euell, the LORDE rewarde him acordynge to his dedes,¹⁵ of whom be thou ware also. For he withstode oure wordes sore.

¹⁶ In my first answerynge no man assisted me, but all forsoke me. I praye God that it be not layed to their charges.¹⁷ Notwitstondynge the LORDE stode by me, & stregthed me, that by me the preachinge shulde be fulfylled to the vttemost, and that all the Heythe shulde heare. And I was delyuered out of the mouth of the lyon.¹⁸ And the LORDE shal delyuer me from all euell doynge, and shal kepe me vnto his heauenly kyngdome. To whom be prayse for euer and euer, Amen.¹⁹ Salute Prisca and Aquila, and ye houssholde of Onesiphorus.²⁰ Erastus abode at Corinthum. But Trophimus left I sicke at Miletu.²¹ Make spede to come before wynter. Eubolus, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren salute the.²² The LORDE Iesus Christ be with thy sprete. Grace be with you, Amen.