11 translations · Greek
2 Timothy 4:2
preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.
2 Timothy 4:2 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.
- KJV King James Version
- Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction.
- ASV American Standard Version
- preach the word; be urgent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season; convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,
- FBV Free Bible Version
- Speak God's word whether it is convenient or not, tell people where they're going wrong, warn them, encourage them. Do this with a great deal of patient teaching.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,
- DBY Darby Translation
- proclaim the word; be urgent in season [and] out of season, convict, rebuke, encourage, with all longsuffering and doctrine.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine.
The Greek words
Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| κήρυξον | kēryxon | Preach | G2784 κηρύσσω to preach |
| τὸν | ton | the | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| λόγον | logon | word | G3056 λόγος word |
| ἐπίστηθι | epistēthi | be prepared | G2186 ἐφίστημι to approach |
| εὐκαίρως | eukairōs | in season | G2122 εὐκαίρως well timed |
| ἀκαίρως | akairōs | [and] out of season | G171 ἀκαίρως unseasonably |
| ἔλεγξον | elenxon | reprove | G1651 ἐλέγχω to rebuke |
| ἐπιτίμησον | epitimēson | rebuke | G2008 ἐπιτιμάω to rebuke |
| παρακάλεσον | parakaleson | [and] encourage | G3870 παρακαλέω to plead/comfort |
| ἐν | en | with | G1722 ἐν in/on/among |
| πάσῃ | pasē | every [ form of] | G3956 πᾶς all |
| μακροθυμίᾳ | makrothymia | patient | G3115 μακροθυμία patience |
| καὶ | kai | — | G2532 καί and |
| διδαχῇ | didachē | instruction | G1322 διδαχή teaching |
Related verses
- 1 Thessalonians 5:14
We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.
- 1 Timothy 4:15–16
Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all. Pay attention to yourself, and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
- Revelation 3:19
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
- 1 Timothy 4:13
Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.
- Titus 2:15
Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise you.
- 2 Timothy 2:21
If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.
- Titus 1:13
This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
- Galatians 6:6
But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.
- Romans 12:12
rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;
- Colossians 1:28–29
whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus; for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
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In context
1 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 preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.
3 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;
4 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.
Read all of 2 Timothy 4 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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