2 Timothy 4:2
1 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of His appearing and His kingdom:
Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction.
3 For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.
4 So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction.
- KJV
- Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
- WEB
- preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.
- ASV
- preach the word; be urgent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.
- DARBY
- proclaim the word; be urgent in season [and] out of season, convict, rebuke, encourage, with all longsuffering and doctrine.
- BLB
- Preach the word; be ready in season [and] out of season; convict, rebuke, exhort, in all patience and teaching.
- ÅB
- Forkynn ordet, vær rede i tide og utide, overbevis, irettesett, forman med all langmodighet og lære!
- OTB
- Forkynn ordet; vær beredt i tide og utide; irettesett, refs og forman med all tålmodighet og undervisning.
- B1930
- Forkynn ordet, vær rede i tide og utide, overbevis, irettesett, forman med all langmodighet og lære!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Timothy 4:15–16
Be diligent in these matters and absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all.
Read in context1 Thessalonians 5:14
And we urge you, brothers, to admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, and be patient with everyone.
Read in contextRevelation 3:19
Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
Read in context1 Timothy 4:13
Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, and to teaching.
Read in contextTitus 2:15
Speak these things as you encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.
Read in context2 Timothy 2:21
So if anyone cleanses himself of what is unfit, he will be a vessel for honor: sanctified, useful to the Master, and prepared for every good work.
Read in contextTitus 1:13
This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sternly, so that they will be sound in the faith
Read in contextGalatians 6:6
Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word must share in all good things with his instructor.
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