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Preach the Word

2 Timothy 4:2

In 9 translations

BSB
Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction.
KJV
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
WEB
preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.
ASV
preach the word; be urgent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.
LSV
preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season; convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,
YLT
preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,
DBY
proclaim the word; be urgent in season [and] out of season, convict, rebuke, encourage, with all longsuffering and doctrine.
DRC
Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine.
GNV
Preach the worde: be instant, in season and out of season: improue, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
κήρυξον τὸν λόγον, ἐπίστηθι εὐκαίρως ἀκαίρως, ἔλεγξον, ἐπιτίμησον, παρακάλεσον, ἐν πάσῃ μακροθυμίᾳ καὶ διδαχῇ.
RP2018
κήρυξον τὸν λόγον, ἐπίστηθι εὐκαίρως, ἀκαίρως, ἔλεγξον, ἐπιτίμησον, παρακάλεσον, ἐν πάσῃ μακροθυμίᾳ καὶ διδαχῇ.
TR-Boyd
κήρυξον τὸν λόγον, ἐπίστηθι εὐκαίρως, ἀκαίρως, ἔλεγξον, ἐπιτίμησον, παρακάλεσον, ἐν πάσῃ μακροθυμίᾳ καὶ διδαχῇ.
SCR1894
κηρυξον τον λογον επιστηθι ευκαιρως ακαιρως ελεγξον επιτιμησον παρακαλεσον εν παση μακροθυμια και διδαχη

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 1 Thessalonians 5:14And we urge you, brothers, to admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, and be patient with everyone.
  • 1 Timothy 4:15–16Be diligent in these matters and absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all. Pay close attention to your life and to your teaching. Persevere in these things, for by so doing you will save both…
  • Revelation 3:19Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
  • 1 Timothy 4:13Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, and to teaching.
  • Titus 2:15Speak these things as you encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.
  • 2 Timothy 2:21So if anyone cleanses himself of what is unfit, he will be a vessel for honor: sanctified, useful to the Master, and prepared for every good work.
  • Titus 1:13This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sternly, so that they will be sound in the faith
  • Galatians 6:6Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word must share in all good things with his instructor.
  • Romans 12:12Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.
  • Colossians 1:28–29We proclaim Him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ. To this end I also labor, striving with all His energy working powerfully within me.
  • 1 Timothy 5:20But those who persist in sin should be rebuked in front of everyone, so that the others will stand in fear of sin.
  • Jonah 3:2“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.”
  • Luke 4:18–19“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim…
  • 2 Timothy 3:10You, however, have observed my teaching, my conduct, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my perseverance,
  • Colossians 1:25I became its servant by the commission God gave me to fully proclaim to you the word of God,
  • Acts 16:31–33They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.” Then Paul and Silas spoke the word of the Lord to him and to everyone in his house. At that hour of the night, the jailer took…

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