The Epistle.
WAtch thou in al things, * 1.1 suffer afflictions, doe the worke throughly of an Evangelist, fulfil thine office vnto to the vttermost. Besober. For I am now ready to be offred, and the time of my departing is at hand. I haue fought a good fight, I haue fulfilled my couse, I haue kept the faith. From henceforth there is laid vp for mee a crowne of rightousnesse, which the Lord that is a righteous Iudge shall giue me at that day, not to mee onely, but to all them that loue his comming. Doe thy diligence that thou mayest come shortly vnto me. For Demas hath forsaken me, and loueth this present world, and is departed vnto Thessalonica. Crescens is gone to Galatia, Titus vnto Dalmatia, onely Lucas is with me. Take Marke, and bring him with thee, for he is profitable vnto me for the ministration. And Tychicus haue I sent vnto Ephesus. The cloke that I left at Troada with Carpus, when thou commest bring with thee, and the bookes, but spectally the parchment. Alexander the Coppersmith did me much evil, the Lord reward him according to his vee ves: of whom bee thou ware also, for the hath greatly with s••ood our wordes.