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2 Timothy 4:3
“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;”
Verse in context — 2 Timothy 4
1
I charge [thee] therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
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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;
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And they shall turn away [their] ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
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But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
About 2 Timothy
Paul’s final letter, urging faithfulness to the gospel.
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