¹⁵ Declare these things; exhort and ^(A)rebuke with all authority. ^(B)Let no one disregard you.

² preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; ^(A)reprove, rebuke, and ^(B)exhort, with complete patience and teaching.

^12 (A)Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers ^(B)an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. ¹³ Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.

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

^29 (A)for he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.

²⁰ As for those who persist in sin, ^(A)rebuke them in the presence of all, ^(B)so that the rest may stand in fear.

²² And ^(A)they were astonished at his teaching, ^(B)for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes.

³⁶ And ^(A)they were all amazed and said to one another, “What is this word? ^(B)For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”

²⁷ And they were all ^(A)amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? ^(B)A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.”