2 Timothy 4:2-5

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  4:4 And they will turn away from hearing the truth, but on the other hand they will turn aside to myths. ⁸  4:5 You, however, be self-controlled ⁹  in all things, endure hardship, do an evangelist’s work, fulfill your ministry.

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.”

⁸ sn These myths were legendary tales characteristic of the false teachers in Ephesus and Crete. See parallels in 1 Tim 1:4; 4:7; and Titus 1:14.

⁹ tn Or “sober,” “temperate.”