2 Timothy 4:9
New International Version
Do your best to come to me quickly,

New Living Translation
Timothy, please come as soon as you can.

English Standard Version
Do your best to come to me soon.

Berean Standard Bible
Make every effort to come to me quickly,

Berean Literal Bible
Be diligent to come to me quickly,

King James Bible
Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me:

New King James Version
Be diligent to come to me quickly;

New American Standard Bible
Make every effort to come to me soon;

NASB 1995
Make every effort to come to me soon;

NASB 1977
Make every effort to come to me soon;

Legacy Standard Bible
Be diligent to come to me soon,

Amplified Bible
Make every effort to come to me soon;

Christian Standard Bible
Make every effort to come to me soon,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Make every effort to come to me soon,

American Standard Version
Give diligence to come shortly unto me:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Let it be your concern to come quickly to me.

Contemporary English Version
Come to see me as soon as you can.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For Demas hath left me, loving this world, and is gone to Thessalonica:

English Revised Version
Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Hurry to visit me soon.

Good News Translation
Do your best to come to me soon.

International Standard Version
Do your best to come to me soon,

Literal Standard Version
Be diligent to come to me quickly,

Majority Standard Bible
Make every effort to come to me quickly,

New American Bible
Try to join me soon,

NET Bible
Make every effort to come to me soon.

New Revised Standard Version
Do your best to come to me soon,

New Heart English Bible
Be diligent to come to me soon,

Webster's Bible Translation
Do thy diligence to come shortly to me:

Weymouth New Testament
Make an effort to come to me speedily.

World English Bible
Be diligent to come to me soon,

Young's Literal Translation
Be diligent to come unto me quickly,

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Context
Personal Concerns
8From now on there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but to all who crave His appearing. 9Make every effort to come to me quickly, 10because Demas, in his love of this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.…

Cross References
Luke 12:58
Make every effort to reconcile with your adversary while you are on your way to the magistrate. Otherwise, he may drag you off to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and the officer may throw you into prison.

2 Timothy 1:4
Recalling your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy.

2 Timothy 4:21
Make every effort to come to me before winter. Eubulus sends you greetings, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.

Titus 3:12
As soon as I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, make every effort to come to me at Nicopolis, because I have decided to winter there.


Treasury of Scripture

Do your diligence to come shortly to me:

2 Timothy 4:21
Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.

2 Timothy 1:4
Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;

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2 Timothy 4
1. He exhorts him to preach the Word with all care and diligence;
6. certifies him of the nearness of his death;
9. wills him to come speedily unto him, and to bring Marcus with him;
14. warns him to beware of Alexander the metalworker.
16. informs him what had befallen him at his first answering;
19. and soon after he concludes.














(9) Do thy diligence to come shortly.--Such a request as this would--had we no other arguments--tell us that no forger ever wrote this Epistle. Who would ever have dreamed of putting into the letter such a request as this, after those solemn expressions of the last few verses, in which the Apostle spoke of himself as even then tasting the bitterness of death? He had been writing as though the martyr's death was so imminent that the preparations were already being made for it. This request to Timothy to come to him, after he had written such thoughts down, is at first sight strange, and one certainly which no forger would have appended to the writing. But though the forger would never have thought of such a summons, St. Paul might. He still lived, and the thought of life and the hope of life even in that brave Christ-loving heart still burned; after all, the martyrdom which seemed so close at hand might be delayed. Days, months, might drag on their slow, weary length, and still find the old man languishing and solitary in his chains in that dreary prison. He longed to see some of his faithful companions once more, and for the last time to bid them with his own mouth to be faithful and brave. So, as it were, hoping against hope, he dictates on the last pages of the letter, "Do thy diligence," or better, "earnestly endeavour to come shortly to me." His loving wish to see Timothy again appears from the words of 2Timothy 1:4 : "greatly desiring to see thee;" and again from 2Timothy 4:21. "Do thy diligence to come before winter." And some have seen in the expression, "being mindful of thy tears," in 2Timothy 1:4 (to which we have given, however, a different interpretation), a reciprocal anxiety on the part of Timothy to see and speak again with his old master. But St. Paul, though he begged him to hasten his journey as much as possible, and still, though all seemed so dark around him, hoped to see him again, framed the charge of the last letter in such a way that Timothy, if when he reached Rome, should find that all was over, might know what were his master's last wishes and directions. On the natural human longing for sympathy in the supreme hour, compare our blessed Lord's words to Peter, James, and John (Matthew 26:38): "My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with Me."

Verse 9. - Do thy diligence (σπούδασον); see ch. 2:15, note. St. Paul's affectionate longing for Timothy's company in present danger and desertion is very touching. (For the chronological bearing of this passage, see Introduction.)

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Make every effort
Σπούδασον (Spoudason)
Verb - Aorist Imperative Active - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 4704: To hasten, be eager, be zealous. From spoude; to use speed, i.e. To make effort, be prompt or earnest.

to come
ἐλθεῖν (elthein)
Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active
Strong's 2064: To come, go.

to
πρός (pros)
Preposition
Strong's 4314: To, towards, with. A strengthened form of pro; a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e. Toward.

me
με (me)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

quickly,
ταχέως (tacheōs)
Adverb
Strong's 5030: Soon, quickly, hastily. Adverb from tachus; briefly, i.e. speedily, or rapidly.


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