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¹ I testifie therfore before god and before the lorde Iesu Christ which shall iudge quicke and deed at his aperynge in his kyngdom² preache the worde be fervent be it in season or out of season. Improve rebuke exhorte with all longe sufferinge and doctryne.³ For the tyme will come when they wyll not suffer wholsome doctryne: but after their awne lustes shall they (whose eares ytche) gett the an heepe of teachers⁴ and shall turne their eares from ye trueth and shalbe geven vnto fables.⁵ But watch thou in all thynges and suffre adversitie and do the worke of an evangelist fulfill thyne office vnto the vtmost.⁶ For I am now redy to be offered and the tyme of my departynge is at honde.⁷ I have fought a good fight and have fulfilled my course and have kept the fayth.⁸ From hence forth is layde vp for me a croune of rightewesnes which the lorde that is a righteous iudge shall geve me at that daye: not to me only but vnto all them that love his commynge.

⁹ Make spede to come vnto me at once.¹⁰ For Demas hath left me and hath loved this present worlde and is departed into Tessalonica. Crescens is gone to Galacia and Titus vnto Dalmacea.¹¹ Only Lucas is with me. Take Marke and bringe him with the for he is necessary vnto me forto minister.¹² And Tichicus have I sent to Ephesus.¹³ The cloke that I lefte at Troada with Carpus whe thou commest brynge with the and the bokes but specially the partchemet.¹⁴ Alexander the coppersmyth did me moche evyll the lorde rewarde him accordynge to his dedes¹⁵ of whom be thou ware also. For he withstode oure preachynge sore.

¹⁶ At my fyrst answerynge no man assissted me but all forsoke me. I praye God that it maye not be layde to their charges:¹⁷ notwithstondinge the Lorde assisted me and stregthed me that by me the preachinge shuld be fulfilled to the vtmost and that all the gentyls shuld heare. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lyon.¹⁸ And the Lorde shall delivre me from all evyll doynge and shall kepe me vnto his hevenly kyngdome. To who be prayse for ever and ever. Amen.¹⁹ Salute Prisca and Aquila and the housholde of Onesiphorus.²⁰ Erastus abode at Corinthu. Trophimos I lefte at Miletum sicke.²¹ Make spede to come before winter. Eubolus gretith the and Pudes and Linus and Claudia and all the brethren.²² The Lorde Iesus Christ be with thy sprete. Grace be with you. Amen.