2 Timothy 4:2-5
English Standard Version
2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; (A)reprove, rebuke, and (B)exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 3 (C)For the time is coming when people will not endure (D)sound[a] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and (E)will turn away from listening to the truth and (F)wander off into myths. 5 As for you, (G)always be sober-minded, (H)endure suffering, do the work of (I)an evangelist, (J)fulfill your ministry.
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2 Timothy 4:2-5
New International Version
2 Preach(A) the word;(B) be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke(C) and encourage(D)—with great patience and careful instruction. 3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine.(E) Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.(F) 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.(G) 5 But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship,(H) do the work of an evangelist,(I) discharge all the duties of your ministry.
2 Timothy 4:2-5
King James Version
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering 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.
5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
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