2 Timothy 4:2

2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; 1reprove, rebuke, and 2exhort, with complete patience and teaching.

2 Timothy 4:2 In-Context

1 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,
4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
5 As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

Cross References 2

  • 1. 1 Timothy 5:20; Titus 1:13; Titus 2:15
  • 2. 1 Timothy 4:13
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