Fr. Mike Schmitz

Convince, rebuke, and exhort.

Be unfailing in patience and in teaching.

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths.

As for you, always be steady, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

For I am already on the point of being sacrificed.

The time of my departure has come.

I have fought the good fight.

I have finished the race.

I have kept the faith.

From now on, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge will award to me on that day.

And not only to me, but also to all who have loved his appearing.

Personal instructions.

Do your best to come to me soon.

For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica.

Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Luke alone is with me.

Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is very useful in serving me.

Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.

When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, also the books, and above all the parchments.

Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm.