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2 Timothy 4:2

preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all patience and teaching.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

In Context

1I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is going to judge the living and the dead in accordance with His appearing and His kingdom:

3For there will be a time when they will not put up with sound doctrine, but according to their own lusts, they will heap up for themselves teachers, tickling their ears,

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Cross References

Luke 4:18“ The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, 1 because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; 1 He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, 1 to proclaim liberty to the captives 1 and recovery of sight to the blind, 1 to set at liberty those who are oppressed; 1

Luke 7:23And blessed is he who is not offended because of Me.”

John 4:6Now Jacob's well was there. Therefore Jesus, having become tired from the journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.

Acts 13:5And arriving in Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. They also had John as their assistant.

Acts 16:31And they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved, you and your household.”

Matthew Henry on 2 Timothy 4:2-9

Ministerial Duties; The Apostle's Joyful Expectation. ( a. d. 66.) 1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from… Read the whole commentary →

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