2 Timothy 3:14-4:4

Holman Christian Standard Bible

¹⁴But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed. You know those who taught you,^(A) ¹⁵and you know that from childhood you have known the sacred Scriptures,^(B) which are able to give you wisdom for salvation^(C) through faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶All Scripture is inspired by God^[a]^(D) and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness, ¹⁷so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.^(E)

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4 I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge^(F) the living and the dead,^(G) and because of His appearing and His kingdom:^(H) ²Proclaim the message; persist in it whether convenient or not; rebuke, correct, and encourage with great patience and teaching. ³For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine,^(I) but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear something new.^[b] ⁴They will turn away from hearing the truth and will turn aside to myths.^(J)

Footnotes

2 Timothy 3:16 Lit breathed out by God; the Scripture is the product of God’s Spirit working through men; 2Pt 1:20-21.
2 Timothy 4:3 Or to hear what they want to hear; lit themselves, itching in the hearing