How careful we need to be in exhorting any to continue, that it be in a right way, and not in a sinful way---Paul exhorts Timothy to continue against the dark description of the last days.-In leading up to the text we have--- A description of the last days -v1 - 9--- The importance of personal witness and example -v10--- The persecution of the Godly -v11 - 12--- The increase of evil men -v13- --Paul then exhorts Timothy -But continue thou---We look at what he was to continue in--1- In what he had been taught-2- In the knowledge of the Holy scriptures-3- In the appointed use of the Holy scriptures