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2 Timothy 4:21
ESV Do your best to come before winter. Eubulus sends greetings to you, as do Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brothers.
NIV Do your best to get here before winter. Eubulus greets you, and so do Pudens, Linus, Claudia and all the brothers and sisters.
NASB Make every effort to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, also Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers and sisters.
CSB Make every effort to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers and sisters.
NLT Do your best to get here before winter. Eubulus sends you greetings, and so do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers and sisters.
KJV Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.
NKJV Do your utmost to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, as well as Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brethren.

What does 2 Timothy 4:21 mean?

This verse focuses on two themes. First, Paul urges Timothy to come to him in Rome, something he has already requested once in this letter (2 Timothy 4:9). It appears Paul wrote sometime in the fall, urging Timothy to come before winter weather shut down sea travel.

Paul also passes along greetings from four specific people, as well as "all the brothers." There appears to have been many more Christians in Rome than when Paul had written his letter to the Romans approximately a decade earlier. The ministries of Paul, Peter (1 Peter 5:13), and other Christians had led to rapid growth among believers in the Empire's capital. Little is known about these four individuals with the exception of Linus. In the writings of the church father Irenaeus, Linus is mentioned as the first bishop of Rome after the deaths of Peter and Paul. Timothy apparently already knew these four people.
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