📖WEB · 2 Timothy 4:1

What does 2 Timothy 4:1 mean?

"I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:"

— 2 Timothy 4:1 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

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preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.

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For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;

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and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.

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