2 Timothy 4:3 - The Text-Critical English New Testament

³ For a time is coming when people will not tolerate sound doctrine, but having itching ears they will surround themselves with 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,

2 Timothy 4:3 Cross References

Luke 20:19

Then the chief priests and the scribes wanted to arrest him at that very hour, for they knew he had spoken this parable against them, but they were afraid.

Luke 6:26

Woe to you when others speak well of you, for their fathers treated the false prophets in the same way.

John 8:45

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

Acts 17:21

(Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who dwelt there would spend their time in nothing else but talking about and listening to whatever the newest idea might be.)

1 Corinthians 2:1

When I came to you, brothers, I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom.

1 Corinthians 2:4

And my word and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human 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

for fornicators, for homosexuals, for slave traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for whatever else is opposed to the sound teaching

2 Timothy 1:13

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

Jude 1:18

how they said to you, “In the end times there will be scoffers who walk according to their own ungodly lusts.”