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evil work…” Let me stop right there. Now,
what is the apostle Paul saying? He just told
us in verse 6, “For I am now ready to be
offered, and the time of my departure is at
hand.” He already knows what is ahead of
him, but now we read in verse 18 that he
says, “the Lord shall deliver me from every
evil work.” Notice he did not say that the
Lord will deliver me from every evil worker,
because evil workers brought Paul into
court. He stood before an evil worker, Nero,
who had persecuted many believers.
So in verse 18, we see Paul’s integrity, his
virtue, and he says that “the Lord shall
deliver me from every evil work.” What is
the apostle Paul saying in this passage?
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