2Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage--with great patience and careful instruction.


In Context

1 In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge:

2 Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage--with great patience and careful instruction.

3 For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.

4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

2nd Timothy 4:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:2Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:2Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:2preach the word; be urgent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:2proclaim the word; be urgent in season and out of season, convict, rebuke, encourage, with all longsuffering and doctrine.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:2preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:2Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:2preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:2preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:2Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.