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2 Timothy 4:2
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Tell everyone God's message. Be ready at all times to do whatever is needed. Tell people what they need to do, tell them when they are doing wrong, and encourage them. Do this with great patience and careful teaching.
preache the worde be fervent be it in season or out of season. Improve rebuke exhorte with all longe sufferinge and doctryne.
preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.
preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; correct, rebuke, and exhort, with great patience and instruction.
Preach the Good News. Be ready at all times, and tell people what they need to do. Tell them when they are wrong. Encourage them with great patience and careful teaching,
preach the word; be urgent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and teaching.
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.
preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.
be instant in season, out of season; convince, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and teaching.
proclaim God's message, be zealous in season and out of season; convince, rebuke, encourage, with the utmost patience as a teacher.
preche the word, be thou bisi couenabli with outen rest, repreue thou, biseche thou, blame thou in al pacience and doctryn.
preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.
Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction.
to preach God's message. Do it willingly, even if it isn't the popular thing to do. You must correct people and point out their sins. But also cheer them up, and when you instruct them, always be patient.
preach the word [as an official messenger]; be ready when the time is right and even when it is not [keep your sense of urgency, whether the opportunity seems favorable or unfavorable, whether convenient or inconvenient, whether welcome or unwelcome]; correct [those who err in doctrine or behavior], warn [those who sin], exhort and encourage [those who are growing toward spiritual maturity], with inexhaustible patience and [faithful] teaching.
preach the word; be urgent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.
Be preaching the word at all times, in every place; make protests, say sharp words, give comfort, with long waiting and teaching;
proclaim the Word! Be on hand with it whether the time seems right or not. Convict, censure and exhort with unfailing patience and with teaching.
proclaim the word; be urgent in season [and] out of season, convict, rebuke, encourage, with all longsuffering and doctrine.
to proclaim the message. Be ready to do thisto do this">[fn] whether or not the time is convenient. Refute, warn, and encourage with the utmost patience when you teach.1 Timothy 4:13; 5:20; Titus 1:13; 2:15;">[xr]
preach the word, and stand with diligence in season, and (that) which is not season; confute, and rebuke with all prolongedness of mind and doctrine.
2 Proclaim the word; and persist [fn] with diligence, in time and out of time; admonish, and rebuke, with all patience and instructiveness.
Preach the word, be instant in season, out of season, reprooue, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering & doctrine.
Preach the word of God. Be prepared, whether the time is favorable or not. Patiently correct, rebuke, and encourage your people with good teaching.
Preach the Word of God. Preach it when it is easy and people want to listen and when it is hard and people do not want to listen. Preach it all the time. Use the Word of God to show people they are wrong. Use the Word of God to help them do right. You must be willing to wait for people to understand what you teach as you teach them.
proclaim the message; be persistent whether the time is favorable or unfavorable; convince, rebuke, and encourage, with the utmost patience in teaching.
Preach the worde: be instant, in season and out of season: improue, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
Preach the word; and stand by it zealously in season and out of season, rebuke, reprove, through all patience and teaching.
Proclaim the word, take thy position - in season, out of season, - convince, rebuke, encourage, - with all long-suffering and teaching.
Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine.
Preache the worde, be instant in season, out of season: Improue, rebuke, exhort in all long sufferyng and doctrine.
to preach the message, to insist upon proclaiming it (whether the time is right or not), to convince, reproach, and encourage, as you teach with all patience.
Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; rebuke, correct, and encourage with great patience and teaching.
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
preach the word, be ready in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all patience and instruction.
preach the Word, be urgent in season, out of season, convict, warn, encourage with all long-suffering and teaching.
preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,
Preach thou the worde, be feruent, be it in season or out of season: Improue, rebuke, exhorte with all longe sufferynge and doctryne.
to preach the word with assiduity upon all occasions: reprove, censure, exhort, with the most tender persuasions.
Preach the message, be ready whether it is convenient or not, reprove, rebuke, exhort with complete patience and instruction.
Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.
to spread the word of God. Keep both feet in the stirrups and always be ready, no matter the season or circumstance. Never shy away from correcting or encouraging, but do both with patience and careful teaching.
preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.
preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and teaching.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Preach: Psalms 40:9, Isaiah 61:1-3, Jonah 3:2, Luke 4:18, Luke 4:19, Luke 9:60, Romans 10:15, Colossians 1:25, Colossians 1:28
be: Luke 7:4, Luke 7:23, Acts 13:5, *marg. Romans 12:12, 1 Timothy 4:15, 1 Timothy 4:16
in: John 4:6-10, John 4:32-34, Acts 16:13, Acts 16:31-33, Acts 20:7, Acts 20:18-21, Acts 28:16, Acts 28:30, Acts 28:31
reprove: Colossians 1:28, Colossians 1:29, 1 Thessalonians 2:11, 1 Thessalonians 2:12, 1 Thessalonians 5:14, 1 Thessalonians 5:20, Titus 1:13, Titus 2:15, Hebrews 13:22, Revelation 3:19
exhort: 1 Timothy 4:13
all: 2 Timothy 2:21, 2 Timothy 2:25, 2 Timothy 3:10
Reciprocal: Leviticus 19:17 - rebuke Numbers 1:53 - shall pitch Joshua 10:9 - all night 2 Chronicles 30:22 - taught Ezra 7:10 - and to teach Psalms 37:18 - the days Proverbs 22:29 - a man Proverbs 24:25 - them Ecclesiastes 11:6 - sow Isaiah 9:15 - the prophet Jeremiah 25:3 - rising Zechariah 3:7 - if thou wilt keep Mark 2:2 - and he Luke 4:43 - I must Luke 9:11 - and he Luke 12:42 - in due Luke 14:23 - compel Acts 5:42 - daily Acts 6:4 - give Acts 14:7 - General Acts 14:26 - the work Acts 15:32 - exhorted Acts 15:35 - teaching Acts 19:9 - daily Acts 20:20 - and have Romans 12:7 - ministry 1 Corinthians 13:4 - suffereth 1 Corinthians 14:3 - exhortation 1 Corinthians 14:6 - doctrine 2 Corinthians 6:6 - knowledge Ephesians 5:11 - but 1 Thessalonians 2:19 - in 1 Timothy 4:11 - General 1 Timothy 5:17 - word 1 Timothy 5:20 - rebuke 2 Timothy 1:6 - that 2 Timothy 3:16 - for reproof Hebrews 3:13 - exhort Revelation 4:8 - six
Cross-References
therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name Seth, for she said, "God has appointed for me another child instead of Abel, for Cain slew him."
To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of the LORD.
Noah was the first tiller of the soil. He planted a vineyard;
And Israel said to Joseph, "Are not your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem? Come, I will send you to them." And he said to him, "Here I am."
Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, as our fathers were."
Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Mid'ian; and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Lo, sons are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward.
and the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'
from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechari'ah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it shall be required of this generation.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Preach the word,.... Either Christ the essential Word, who is the sum and substance of the Gospel ministry; or the word of truth and faith, the Gospel of salvation, the word of righteousness, peace, and reconciliation by Christ; which is to be preached, or published, in like manner as heralds proclaim the will of their princes; openly, publicly, and with a loud voice, without adding to it, or taking from speaking out the whole, and keeping back no part of it; and that with all courage and boldness: some copies read, "the word of God"; and the Ethiopic version, "his word"; that is, the word of Christ:
be instant in season, out of season; that is, be constant and assiduous in the work of the ministry; be always and wholly in it, either preparing for it, or performing it; or doing those things which are annexed to it, or follow upon it; redeem time, and take every opportunity of dispensing the mysteries of grace, as a faithful steward of them; not only make use of the common and stated seasons for the ministration of the word and ordinances, but embrace every other that offers; make use not only of those seasons which may seem commodious and advantageous both to preacher and hearer, and promise usefulness and success, but even such as may seem incommodious and disadvantageous to flesh and blood; such as times of persecution and opposition; but none of these things should deter and move from the preaching of the Gospel. Several parts of the ministerial function to be insisted on and attended to are next mentioned, as being within the solemn charge given before God and Christ:
reprove; errors, and men for their errors and heresies; make use of convincing arguments taken out of the Scriptures, which are profitable for reproof of this kind; and which reproof sometimes is to be given with sharpness, as the case requires, that men may be sound in the faith.
Rebuke; or chide for sin; some privately, others more publicly, according to the nature and circumstances of the offence; some more gently, others more roughly, as is needful.
Exhort; to all the duties of religion respecting God and man; to show love, and to do good works; to hold fast the profession of faith, and walk as becomes the Gospel of Christ; and to persevere in faith and holiness: or "comfort", as the word may be rendered; for as the ministers of the Gospel are in some cases to be "Boanergeses", sons of thunder, so other cases they should be Barnabases, sons of consolation; and comfort distressed minds, by preaching the comfortable doctrines of peace, pardon, righteousness and salvation by Jesus Christ:
with all longsuffering: or patience. The success of the Gospel ministry should be patiently waited for as husbandmen do for the fruits of the earth. Those that give into error, and oppose themselves to the truth, should be instructed in meekness; and those who are overtaken in a fault should be gently rebuked, and restored in such a spirit; and every exhortation should be pressed as persons are able to bear it:
and doctrine; in a way that is instructive and teaching, and in agreement with the doctrine of the Scriptures, which are profitable for that purpose.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Preach the word - The Word of God; the gospel. This was to be the main business of the life of Timothy, and Paul solemnly charges him in view of the certain coming of the Redeemer to judgment, to be faithful in the performance of it.
Be instant - see the notes at Romans 12:12. The meaning here is, that he should be constant in this duty. Literally, “to stand by, or to stand fast by;” that is, he was to be pressing or urgent in the performance of this work. He was always to be at his post, and was to embrace every opportunity of making known the gospel. What Paul seems to have contemplated was not merely, that he should perform the duty at stated and regular times; but that he should press the matter as one who had the subject much at heart, and never lose an opportunity of making the gospel known.
In season - εὐκαίρως eukairōs. In good time; opportunely; compare Matthew 26:16; Luke 22:6; Mark 14:11. The sense is, when it could be conveniently done; when all things were favorable, and when there were no obstructions or hindrances. It may include the “stated and regular” seasons for public worship, but is not confined to them.
Out of season - ἀκαίρως akairōs. This word does not elsewhere occur in the New Testament. It is the opposite of the former, and means that a minister is to seek opportunities to preach the gospel even at such periods as might be inconvenient to himself, or when there might be hindrances and embarrassments, or when there was no stated appointment for preaching. He is not to confine himself to the appointed times of worship, or to preach only when it will be perfectly convenient for himself, but he is to have such an interest and earnestness in the work, that it will lead him to do it in the face of embarrassments and discouragements, and whenever he can find an opportunity. A man who is greatly intent on an object will seek every opportunity to promote it. He will not confine himself to stated times and places, but will present it everywhere, and at all times. A man, therefore, who merely confines himself to the stated seasons of preaching the gospel, or who merely preaches when it is convenient to himself, should not consider that he has come up to the requirement of the rule laid down by the apostle. He should preach in his private conversation, and in the intervals of his public labors, at the side of the sick bed, and wherever there is a prospect of doing good to any one. If his heart is full of love to the Saviour and to souls, he cannot help doing this.
Reprove - Or “convince;” See the notes at 2 Timothy 3:16. The meaning is that he was to use such arguments as would “convince” men of the truth of religion, and of their own need of it.
Rebuke - Rebuke offenders; Titus 2:15; see the use of the word in Matthew 8:26; Matthew 12:16, (rendered “charged”); Matthew 16:22; Matthew 17:18; Matthew 19:13; Matthew 20:31; Luke 4:35, Luke 4:39; Luke 17:13; Luke 18:15; Jude 1:9. In the New Testament the word is used to express a judgment of what is wrong or contrary to one’s will, and hence, to admonish or reprove. It implies our conviction that there is something evil, or some fault in him who is rebuked. The word in this verse rendered “reprove,” does not imply this, but merely that one may be in error, and needs to have arguments presented to convince him of the truth. That word also implies no superior authority in him who does it. He presents “reasons, or argues” the case, for the purpose of convincing. The word here rendered rebuke, implies authority or superiority, and means merely that we may say that a thing is wrong, and administer a rebuke for it, as if there were no doubt that it was wrong. The propriety of the rebuke rests on our authority for doing it, not on the arguments which we present. This is based on the presumption that men often Know that they are doing wrong, and need no arguments to convince them of it. The idea is, that the minister is not merely to reason about sin, and convince men that it is wrong, but he may solemnly admonish them not to do it, and warn them of the consequences.
Exhort - See the notes at Romans 12:8.
With all long-suffering - That is, with a patient and persevering spirit if you are opposed; see the notes on 2 Timothy 2:25; compare the notes on Romans 2:4; compare Romans 9:22; 2 Corinthians 6:6; Galatians 5:22; Ephesians 4:2; Colossians 1:11; Colossians 3:12; 1 Timothy 1:16.
And doctrine - Teaching, or patient instruction.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 2 Timothy 4:2. Preach the word — Κηρυξον τον λογον· Proclaim the doctrine, the doctrine of Christ crucified, for the sins of the whole world; the doctrine, that the Gentiles are invited to be fellow heirs with the Jews, and that for Jews and Gentiles there is no salvation but by faith in Christ.
Be instant in season, out of season — Επιστηθι ευκαιρως, ακαιρως. Be urgent whether the times be prosperous or adverse, whenever there is an opportunity; and when there is none, strive to make one. The Judge is at the door, and to every man eternity is at hand! Wherever thou meetest a sinner, speak to him the word of reconciliation. Do not be contented with stated times and accustomed places merely; all time and place belong to God, and are proper for his work. Wherever it can be done, there it should be done. Satan will omit neither time nor place where he can destroy. Omit thou none where thou mayest be the instrument of salvation to any.
Reprove — ελεγξον. Confute, the false teacher.
Rebuke — επιτιμησον. Reprove cuttingly and severely those who will not abandon their sins.
Exhort — παρακαλεσον. Comfort the feeble-minded, the diffident and the tempted.
With all long-suffering — In reference to each and all of these cases.
And doctrine. — The different modes of teaching suited to each.
