2 Timothy 4:3 BSB — MannaFest

2 Timothy 4:3

For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.

BSB

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ASV

For 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;

KJV

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

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Commentary

4 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For the time will come ... - Probably referring to the time mentioned in 2Ti 3:1, following. When they will not endure sound doctrine - Greek, “healthful doctrine;” i. e., doctrine contributing to the health of the soul, or to salvation. At that time they would seek a kind of instruction more conformable to their wishes and feelings.

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The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Such teachers, and such hearers, seldom are much concerned with what is strict or to the purpose. Heap to themselves - Not enduring sound doctrine, they will reject the sound preachers, and gather together all that suit their own taste. Probably they send out one another as teachers, and so are never at a loss for numbers.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The reason of his concern in this case, Why must Timothy now be instant in season, &c., in a particular manner? Because the church was likely to be deprived of the apostle's labours, for his departure was at hand,

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

They will turn away their ears from the truth; they will grow weary of the old plain gospel of Christ, and then they will be greedy of fables, and take pleasure in them, and God will give them up to those strong delusions, because they received not the truth in the love of it, 2 Thess. ii.

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἔσται	estai	There will be	G1510 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
καιρὸς	kairos	a time	G2540 →
ὅτε	hote	when	G3753 →
τῆς	tēs	<the>	G3588 →
ὑγιαινούσης	hugiainousēs	sound	G5198 →
διδασκαλίας	didaskalias	teaching	G1319 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
ἀνέξονται,	anexontai	they will endure,	G430 →
ἀλλὰ	alla	but	G235 →
κατὰ	kata	according to	G2596 →
τὰς	tas	<the>	G3588 →
ἰδίας	idias	[their] own	G2398 →
ἐπιθυμίας	epithumias	desires	G1939 →
ἑαυτοῖς	he'autois	to themselves	G1438 →
ἐπισωρεύσουσιν	episōreusousin	they will gather around [them]	G2002 →
διδασκάλους	didaskalous	teachers	G1320 →
κνηθόμενοι	knēthomenoi	having an itching	G2833 →
τὴν	tēn	<the>	G3588 →
ἀκοήν·	akoēn	ear;	G189 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Galatians 4:16
Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
leads to
- Amos 5:10
  There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.
- Proverbs 9:8
  Do not rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.
- John 8:45
  But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me!
- Galatians 5:7
  You were running so well. Who has obstructed you from obeying the truth?
- Psalms 141:5
  Let the righteous man strike me; let his rebuke be an act of loving devotion. It is oil for my head; let me not refuse it. For my prayer is ever against the deeds…
Through
1 Timothy 1:10
for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 6:9–10
  Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual…
- Leviticus 18:22
  You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination.
- Romans 1:26
  For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.