² preach ^(A)the word; be ready ^[a]in season and out of season; ^(B)correct, rebuke, and ^[b]exhort, with ^[c]great ^(C)patience and instruction. ³ For ^(D)the time will come when they will not tolerate ^(E)sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires, ⁴ and they ^(F)will turn their ears away from the truth and ^(G)will turn aside to myths.

^8 (A)See to it that there is no one who takes you captive through ^(B)philosophy and empty deception in accordance with human tradition, in accordance with the ^(C)elementary principles of the world, ^[a]rather than in accordance with Christ.