2 Timothy 4:2-3

4:2 Preach the message, ¹  be ready ²  whether it is convenient or not, ³  reprove, rebuke, exhort ⁴  with complete patience and instruction. 4:3 For there will be a time when people ⁵  will not tolerate sound teaching. Instead, following their own desires, ⁶  they will accumulate teachers for themselves, because they have an insatiable curiosity to hear new things. ⁷ 

¹ tn Or “the word.”

² tn Or “be persistent.”

³ tn Grk “in season, out of season.”

⁴ tn Or “encourage.”

⁵ tn Grk “they”; the referent (the people in that future time) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Grk “in accord with.”

⁷ tn Grk “having an itching in regard to hearing,” “having itching ears.”