2 Timothy 4:1-4 ▼

1 I fully testify, then, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is about to judge [the] living and dead at His appearing and His Kingdom—

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

3 for there will be a season when they will not endure the sound teaching, but they will heap up teachers according to their own desires—having an itching ear,

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