preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Timothy 4:2 in context
2 Timothy 4:1–5
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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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But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
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