2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when people will not endure sound teaching. Instead, they will heap up for themselves teachers according to their own desires, who say what their itching ears want to hear.
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4They will turn their hearing away from the truth, and they will turn aside to myths.
Cross References
1 Kings 18:22Then Elijah said to the people, “I, I alone, am left as a prophet of Yahweh, but Baal's prophets are 450 men.
1 Kings 22:18So the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but only disaster?”
2 Chronicles 18:4Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Please first seek the word of Yahweh for your answer.”
2 Chronicles 25:15So Yahweh's anger was kindled against Amaziah. He sent a prophet to him, who said, “Why have you sought after the gods of a people who did not even save their own people from your hand?”
Isaiah 33:9The land mourns and withers away; Lebanon is ashamed and withers away; + 33:9 Some versions have The land dries up and withers away . 1 Sharon is like a desert plain; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves. 1
Jeremiah 6:16Yahweh says this, “Stand at the road crossing and look; ask for the ancient pathways. 1 'Where is this good way?' Then go on it and find a resting place for yourselves. 1 But the people say, 'We will not go.' 1
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 →