2 Timothy 4

2 Timothy 4:1

Since therefore you are so much surrounded by enemies, and so richly furnished with the infinitely excellent and useful oracles of God, and the gifts and graces of his Spirit, I solemnly charge you, as in the immediate presence of the all-seeing God and heart-searching Saviour, and as you will answer it to him, when he shall appear in all the glories of his divine and mediatorial dignity to judge the world

2 Timothy 4:2

Preach the inspired truths of God with the utmost earnestness, diligence, and perseverance, on the Lord’s day, or other 131 This epistle, as well as the two preceding to Timothy, chiefly contains directions for those in the ministerial office. Titus, to whom it was written, was a Gentile, early converted to Christ, perhaps by Paul’s ministry. Being found faithful and diligent in the improvement of his spiritual gifts in a evangelical trusts, Paul left him in Crete, now Candia, a large island in the Mediterranean sea,—as an Evangelist, to put in order the affairs of that infant church.—In this epistle, he directs him to appoint proper officers, who might, by their life and doctrine, confute the judaising preachers and wicked Heathens; chap. i.: and to recommend, by his example and instruction, a truly religious behaviour to Christian professors in every station, answerable to that grace of the gospel, which they had heard and experienced; ii. iii. **