2 Timothy 4

 1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge   the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

 2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort   with all long suffering and doctrine.

 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after   their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto   fables.

 5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist,  make full proof of thy ministry.

 6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.

 7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord,    the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all   them also that love his appearing.

 9 Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me:

 10 For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

 11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.

 12 And Tychicus have I sent to Ephesus.

 13 The cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee,  and the books, but especially the parchments.

 14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:

 15 Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words.

 16 At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God   that it may not be laid to their charge.

 17 Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me  the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I  was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

 18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work,and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

 19 Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.

 20 Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.

 21 Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens,   and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.

 22 The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.

¶The second epistle unto Timotheus, ordained the first bishop of the church of the Ephesians, was written from Rome, when Paul was brought before Nero the second time.

First Peter 1

1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

 2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

 4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

 6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

 7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

 8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:

 9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

 10 Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:

 11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

 12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

 13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

 14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

 15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

 17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:

 18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

 19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

 20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

 21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

 23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

 24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

 25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.