2 Timothy 4:3 - New Revised Standard Version

³ For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ For the time is coming when [people] will not tolerate (endure) sound and wholesome instruction, but, having ears itching [for something pleasing and gratifying], they will gather to themselves one teacher after another to a considerable number, chosen to satisfy their own liking and to foster the errors they hold,

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

³ There will come a time when people will not tolerate sound teaching. They will collect teachers who say what they want to hear because they are self-centered.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ For there shall be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine, but instead, according to their own desires, they will gather to themselves teachers, with itching ears,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ For there shall be a time, when they will not endure sound doctrine; but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears:

2 Timothy 4:3 Cross References

1 Kings 18:22

Then Elijah said to the people, “I, even I only, am left a prophet of the Lord; but Baal's prophets number four hundred fifty.

1 Kings 22:18

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy anything favorable about me, but only disaster?”

1 Kings 22:8

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one other by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micaiah son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he never prophesies anything favorable about me, but only disaster.” Jehoshaphat said, “Let the king not say such a thing.”

Exodus 32:33

But the Lord said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book.

Isaiah 28:12

to whom he has said, “This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose”; yet they would not hear.

Isaiah 30:10

who say to the seers, “Do not see”; and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions,

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah—for instruction shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us bring charges against him, and let us not heed any of his words.”

Jeremiah 27:9

You, therefore, must not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, “You shall not serve the king of Babylon.”

Jeremiah 29:8

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let the prophets and the diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams that they dream,

Jeremiah 5:31

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule as the prophets direct; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?

Micah 2:11

If someone were to go about uttering empty falsehoods, saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” such a one would be the preacher for this people!

Luke 20:19

When the scribes and chief priests realized that he had told this parable against them, they wanted to lay hands on him at that very hour, but they feared the people.

Luke 6:26

“Woe to you when all speak well of you, for that is what their ancestors did to the false prophets.

John 8:45

But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.

Acts 17:21

Now all the Athenians and the foreigners living there would spend their time in nothing but telling or hearing something new.

1 Corinthians 2:1

When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the mystery of God to you in lofty words or wisdom.

1 Corinthians 2:4

My speech and my proclamation were not with plausible words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

Galatians 4:16

Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

1 Timothy 1:10

fornicators, sodomites, slave traders, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching

2 Timothy 1:13

Hold to the standard of sound teaching that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

Jude 1:18

for they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, indulging their own ungodly lusts.”