Key Verse Spotlight
2 Timothy 4:5 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. {make...; or, fulfil}”
2 Timothy 4:5
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
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;
And they shall turn away {their} ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. {make...; or, fulfil}
For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished {my} course, I have kept the faith:
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