2 Timothy 4:2

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Titus 2:15 : 15 These things speak and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
  • 1 Tim 5:20 : 20 Them that sin reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.
  • Titus 1:13 : 13 This testimony is true. For which cause reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
  • 1 Tim 4:13 : 13 Till I come, give heed to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.
  • Rev 3:19 : 19 As many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
  • 2 Tim 3:10 : 10 But thou didst follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,
  • 2 Tim 2:21 : 21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, meet for the master's use, prepared unto every good work.
  • 1 Thess 5:14 : 14 And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.
  • Rom 12:12 : 12 rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing stedfastly in prayer;
  • Col 1:28-29 : 28 whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ; 29 whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
  • Jonah 3:2 : 2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
  • Acts 16:31-33 : 31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved, thou and thy house. 32 And they spake the word of the Lord unto him, with all that were in his house. 33 And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, immediately.
  • Acts 20:7 : 7 And upon the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul discoursed with them, intending to depart on the morrow; and prolonged his speech until midnight.
  • Acts 20:18-21 : 18 And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, after what manner I was with you all the time, 19 serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and with trials which befell me by the plots of the Jews; 20 how I shrank not from declaring unto you anything that was profitable, and teaching you publicly, and from house to house, 21 testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Ps 40:9 : 9 I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great assembly; Lo, I will not refrain my lips, O Jehovah, thou knowest.
  • Isa 61:1-3 : 1 The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening [of the prison] to them that are bound; 2 to proclaim the year of Jehovah's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; 3 to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he may be glorified.
  • Acts 28:30-31 : 30 And he abode two whole years in his own hired dwelling, and received all that went in unto him, 31 preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, none forbidding him.
  • Rom 10:15 : 15 and how shall they preach, except they be sent? even as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that bring glad tidings of good things!
  • Luke 4:18-19 : 18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor: He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised, 19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
  • Luke 7:4 : 4 And they, when they came to Jesus, besought him earnestly, saying, He is worthy that thou shouldest do this for him;
  • Luke 7:23 : 23 And blessed is he, whosoever shall find no occasion of stumbling in me.
  • Luke 9:60 : 60 But he said unto him, Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but go thou and publish abroad the kingdom of God.
  • John 4:6-9 : 6 and Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour. 7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. 8 For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food. 9 The Samaritan woman therefore saith unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, who am a Samaritan woman? (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
  • John 4:32-34 : 32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not. 33 The disciples therefore said one to another, Hath any man brought him [aught] to eat? 34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.
  • Acts 13:5 : 5 And when they were at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John as their attendant.
  • Acts 16:13 : 13 And on the sabbath day we went forth without the gate by a river side, where we supposed there was a place of prayer; and we sat down, and spake unto the women that were come together.
  • 1 Thess 2:11-12 : 11 as ye know how we [dealt with] each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging [you], and testifying, 12 to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.
  • Gal 6:6 : 6 But let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
  • Col 1:25 : 25 whereof I was made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which was given me to you-ward, to fulfil the word of God,
  • 1 Thess 5:20 : 20 despise not prophesyings;
  • 1 Tim 4:15-16 : 15 Be diligent in these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy progress may be manifest unto all. 16 Take heed to thyself, and to thy teaching. Continue in these things; for in doing this thou shalt save both thyself and them that hear thee.
  • 2 Tim 2:25 : 25 in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth,
  • Heb 13:22 : 22 But I exhort you, brethren, bear with the word of exhortation, for I have written unto you in few words.
  • Acts 28:16 : 16 And when we entered into Rome, Paul was suffered to abide by himself with the soldier that guarded him.

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    3For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts;

    4and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside unto fables.

    5But be thou sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry.

  • 1 Tim 4:11-13
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    11These things command and teach.

    12Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity.

    13Till I come, give heed to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.

  • 2 Tim 4:1
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    1I charge [thee] in the sight of God, and of Christ Jesus, who shall judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:

  • Titus 2:15
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    15These things speak and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

  • 2 Tim 2:14-15
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    14Of these things put them in remembrance, charging [them] in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.

    15Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.

  • Titus 2:1-2
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    1But speak thou the things which befit the sound doctrine:

    2that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience:

  • 2 Cor 6:3-4
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    3giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;

    4but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

  • 2 Tim 2:24-25
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    24And the Lord's servant must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing,

    25in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth,

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    6If thou put the brethren in mind of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which thou hast followed [until now] :

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    3As I exhorted thee to tarry at Ephesus, when I was going into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

    4neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questionings, rather than a dispensation of God which is in faith; [so do I now] .

  • 1 Thess 5:14
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    14And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.

  • 1 Tim 4:15-16
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    15Be diligent in these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy progress may be manifest unto all.

    16Take heed to thyself, and to thy teaching. Continue in these things; for in doing this thou shalt save both thyself and them that hear thee.

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    7in all things showing thyself an ensample of good works; in thy doctrine [showing] uncorruptness, gravity,

    8sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of us.

    9[ Exhort] servants to be in subjection to their own masters, [and] to be well-pleasing [to them] in all things; not gainsaying;

    10not purloining, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

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    3If any man teacheth a different doctrine, and consenteth not to sound words, [even] the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;

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    9holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict the gainsayers.

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    13This testimony is true. For which cause reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

  • 2 Tim 2:2-3
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    2And the things which thou hast heard from me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

    3Suffer hardship with [me], as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

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    2with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

  • 1 Tim 4:1
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    1But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

  • Acts 20:31
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    31Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears.

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    9Give diligence to come shortly unto me:

  • 1 Tim 5:20
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    20Them that sin reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [you] :

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    12Wherefore I shall be ready always to put you in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the truth which is with [you] .

  • Eph 4:12
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    12for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:

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    2to speak evil of no man, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all meekness toward all men.

  • 1 Thess 4:1
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    1Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,--that ye abound more and more.

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    16Every scripture inspired of God [is] also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness.

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    4Rejoice in the Lord always: again I will say, Rejoice.

  • Heb 13:22
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    22But I exhort you, brethren, bear with the word of exhortation, for I have written unto you in few words.

  • 1 Cor 4:12
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    12and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

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    10But thou didst follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,

  • 1 Thess 2:4
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    4but even as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who proveth our hearts.

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    8Wherefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to enjoin thee that which is befitting,

  • Rom 12:7
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    7or ministry, [let us give ourselves] to our ministry; or he that teacheth, to his teaching;

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    10For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down.