Personal Commendations, Desertion, and Divine Deliverance
2 Timothy 4:9-18
9Be eager to come to me soon.10For Demas has left me, having loved the present age, and has gone to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.11Luke alone is with me. Take Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service.12Tychicus I sent to Ephesus.13When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, and the books, especially the parchments.14Alexander the coppersmith did me much harm. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds.15You also must guard against him, for he greatly opposed our words.16At my first defense no one came to my support, but all deserted me. May it not be counted against them.17But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the preaching might be fulfilled and all the Gentiles might hear, and I was rescued from the mouth of a lion.18The Lord will rescue me from every evil work and will save me into his heavenly kingdom, to whom be the glory to the ages of the ages. Amen.