2 Timothy 4:3 - English Majority Text Version 2009

³ For there will be a time when they will not put up with sound doctrine, but according to their own lusts, they will heap up for themselves teachers, tickling their ears,

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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

And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on Him that very hour, but they were afraid-for they knew that He had spoken this parable against them.

Luke 6:26

Woe [to you] when men speak well of you, for in like manner their fathers would do 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 strangers staying there as visitors spent their time in nothing other than to say or to hear some new thing.

1 Corinthians 2:1

And I, brothers, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God.

1 Corinthians 2:4

And my message and my preaching [were] not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

Galatians 4:16

Have I therefore become your enemy by speaking the truth to you?

1 Timothy 1:10

for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is opposed to sound doctrine,

2 Timothy 1:13

Hold to the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.

Jude 1:18

how they told you that in the last time there would be mockers, walking according to their own ungodly lusts.