2 Timothy 4:2
1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
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
Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
Read in context1 Thessalonians 5:14
Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
Read in contextRevelation 3:19
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Read in context1 Timothy 4:13
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
Read in contextTitus 2:15
These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
Read in context2 Timothy 2:21
If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.
Read in contextTitus 1:13
This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
Read in contextGalatians 6:6
Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
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