4and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to fables.


In Context

1 I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

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

3 For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;

4 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to fables.

5 But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

6 For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.

2 Timothy 4:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:4And they shall turn away [their] ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:4And will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:4and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside unto fables.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:4and they will turn away their ear from the truth, and will have turned aside to fables.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:4and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside unto fables.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:4And they will turn away their ears from the truth, and will be turned to fables.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:4and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:4And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned to fables.