1 "I
charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will
judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: 2
Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke,
exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. 3
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but
according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they
will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they
will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.
5 But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the
work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry."