¹⁵ Speak these things, ^(A)exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.

² Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. ^(A)Convince, ^(B)rebuke, ^(C)exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.

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¹² Let no one ^[a]despise your youth, but be an ^(A)example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, ^[b]in spirit, in faith, in purity. ¹³ Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to ^[c]doctrine.

¹³ This testimony is true. ^(A)Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

^29 (A)for He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

²⁰ Those who are sinning rebuke in the presence of all, that the rest also may fear.

^22 (A)And they were astonished at His teaching, for He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

³⁶ Then they were all amazed and spoke among themselves, saying, “What a word this is! For with authority and power He commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.”

²⁷ Then they were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, ^[a]“What is this? What new ^[b]doctrine is this? For with authority He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey Him.”