2 Timothy 4:3

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings,

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 are four hundred and fifty men.

1 Kings 22:18

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”

1 Kings 22:8

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”

Exodus 32:33

But the Lord said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, him will I 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, “See not”; and to the prophets, “Prophesy not 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 the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not heed any of his words.”

Jeremiah 27:9

So do 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 your prophets and your diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams which they dream,

Jeremiah 5:31

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

Micah 2:11

If a man should go about and utter wind and lies, saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be the preacher for this people!

Luke 20:19

The scribes and the chief priests tried to lay hands on him at that very hour, but they feared the people; for they perceived that he had told this parable against them.

Luke 6:26

“Woe to you, when all men speak well of you, for so their fathers 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 who lived there spent their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.

1 Corinthians 2:1

When I came to you, brethren, I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God in lofty words or wisdom.

1 Corinthians 2:4

and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

Galatians 4:16

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

1 Timothy 1:10

immoral persons, sodomites, kidnapers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

2 Timothy 1:13

Follow the pattern of the sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus;

Jude 1:18

they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”