¹⁵ These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you.

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.

¹² Don’t let anyone look down on you^(A) because you are young, but set an example^(B) for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith^(C) and in purity. ¹³ Until I come,^(D) devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture,^(E) to preaching and to teaching.

¹³ This saying is true. Therefore rebuke^(A) them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith^(B)

²⁹ because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law.

²⁰ But those elders who are sinning you are to reprove^(A) before everyone, so that the others may take warning.^(B)

²² The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one who had authority, not as the teachers of the law.^(A)

³⁶ All the people were amazed^(A) and said to each other, “What words these are! With authority^(B) and power he gives orders to impure spirits and they come out!”

²⁷ The people were all so amazed^(A) that they asked each other, “What is this? A new teaching—and with authority! He even gives orders to impure spirits and they obey him.”