Proclaim the message; persist in it whether convenient or not; rebuke, correct, and encourage with great patience and teaching. For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine,(A) but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear something new.[a] They will turn away from hearing the truth and will turn aside to myths.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Timothy 4:3 Or to hear what they want to hear; lit themselves, itching in the hearing

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