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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:
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Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.
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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;
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and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.
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But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
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For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand.