2 Timothy 4:2-5

Preach the Word

² preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; _k reprove, rebuke, and _l exhort, with complete patience and teaching. ³ _m For the time is coming when people will not endure _n sound ₁ teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, ⁴ and _o will turn away from listening to the truth and _p wander off into myths. ⁵ As for you, _q always be sober-minded, _r endure suffering, do the work of _s an evangelist, _t fulfill your ministry.

1. Cross References
   1 Timothy 5:20
   As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear.
   Titus 1:13
   This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith.
   Titus 2:15
   Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you.
   
2. Cross References
   1 Timothy 4:13
   Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.
   
3. Cross References
   2 Timothy 3:1
   But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.
   
4. Cross References
   1 Timothy 1:10
   The sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine.
   
5. Cross References
   1 Timothy 6:20
   O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called "knowledge.
   
6. Cross References
   1 Timothy 1:1
   Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope.
   1 Timothy 4:1
   Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons.
   1 Timothy 6:1
   Let all who are under a yoke as slaves regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled.
   
7. Cross References
   1 Peter 1:13
   Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
   
8. Cross References
   2 Timothy 1:8
   Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.
   2 Timothy 2:3
   Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
   2 Timothy 2:9
   For which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound!
   
9. Cross References
   Acts 21:8
   On the next day we departed and came to Caesarea, and we entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.
   Ephesians 4:11
   And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers.
   
10. Cross References
    Colossians 4:17
    And say to Archippus, "See that you fulfill the ministry that you have received in the Lord.