2 Timothy 4:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Herald and preach the Word! Keep your sense of urgency [stand by, be at hand and ready], whether the opportunity seems to be favorable or unfavorable. [Whether it is convenient or inconvenient, whether it is welcome or unwelcome, you as preacher of the Word are to show people in what way their lives are wrong.] And convince them, rebuking and correcting, warning and urging and encouraging them, being unflagging and inexhaustible in patience and teaching.

American Standard Version (1901)

preach the word; be urgent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.

Common English Bible

Preach the word. Be ready to do it whether it is convenient or inconvenient. Correct, confront, and encourage with patience and instruction.

Catholic Public Domain Version

that you should preach the word urgently, in season and out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke, with all patience and doctrine.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine.

2 Timothy 4:2 Cross References

Psalm 40:9

I have published righteousness in the great congregation; Lo, I will not refrain my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

Jonah 3:2

Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

Luke 7:23

And blessed is he, whosoever shall find none occasion of stumbling in me.

Luke 7:4

And they, when they came to Jesus, besought him earnestly, saying, He is worthy that thou shouldest do this for him:

Luke 9:60

But he said unto him, Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but go thou and publish abroad the kingdom of God.

Acts 13:5

And when they were at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John as their attendant.

Acts 16:13

And on the sabbath day we went forth without the gate by a river side, where we supposed there was a place of prayer; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which were come together.

Acts 20:7

And upon the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul discoursed with them, intending to depart on the morrow; and prolonged his speech until midnight.

Acts 28:16

And when we entered into Rome, Paul was suffered to abide by himself with the soldier that guarded him.

Romans 10:15

and how shall they preach, except they be sent? even as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that bring glad tidings of good things!

Romans 12:12

rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing stedfastly in prayer;

Galatians 6:6

But let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.

Colossians 1:25

whereof I was made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which was given me to you-ward, to fulfill the word of God,

Colossians 4:3

withal praying for us also, that God may open unto us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds;

1 Thessalonians 1:6

And ye became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost;

1 Thessalonians 5:14

And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.

1 Thessalonians 5:20

despise not prophesyings;

1 Timothy 4:13

Till I come, give heed to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.

1 Timothy 5:20

Them that sin reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

2 Timothy 2:21

If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, meet for the master's use, prepared unto every good work.

2 Timothy 2:25

in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth,

2 Timothy 3:10

But thou didst follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,

Titus 1:13

This testimony is true. For which cause reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

Titus 2:15

These things speak and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

Hebrews 13:22

But I exhort you, brethren, bear with the word of exhortation: for I have written unto you in few words.

Revelation 3:19

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.