2 Timothy 4:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 At my first defense no one came to my support, but all deserted me. May it not be counted against them! More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition At my first trial no one acted in my defense [as my advocate] or took my part or [even] stood with me, but all forsook me. May it not be charged against them! American Standard Version (1901) At my first defence no one took my part, but all forsook me: may it not be laid to their account. Common English Bible No one took my side at my first court hearing. Everyone deserted me. I hope that God doesn’t hold it against them! Catholic Public Domain Version At my first defense, no one stood by me, but everyone abandoned me. May it not be counted against them! Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version At my first answer no man stood with me, but all forsook me: may it not be laid to their charge. |
When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, do not worry about how or what you will answer or what you are to say,
The hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each one to his home, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone because the Father is with me.
“Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense that I now make before you.”
I told them that it was not the custom of the Romans to hand over anyone before the accused had met the accusers face to face and had been given an opportunity to make a defense against the charge.
Then he knelt down and cried out in a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” When he had said this, he died.
or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable; it keeps no record of wrongs;
For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves guiltless in the matter.
the others proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely but intending to increase my suffering in my imprisonment.
It is right for me to think this way about all of you, because I hold you in my heart, for all of you are my partners in God’s grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel.
You are aware that all who are in Asia have turned away from me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.
for Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
but in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you,