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2 Timothy 4:16

English Standard Version 2016

At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me. May it not be charged against them!

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And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.

And they all left him and fled.

but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

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

You are aware that all who are in Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

The former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely but thinking to afflict me in my imprisonment.

It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel.

For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.

This is my defense to those who would examine me.

I answered them that it was not the custom of the Romans to give up anyone before the accused met the accusers face to face and had opportunity to make his defense concerning the charge laid against him.

“Brothers and fathers, hear the defense that I now make before you.”

And when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious about how you should defend yourself or what you should say,

or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

Beware of him yourself, for he strongly opposed our message.




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