2 Timothy 4:2

Timothy is to preach the word, be ready in season and out, and reprove, rebuke, and exhort with patience and teaching. Faithful preaching of God's word is the central duty of ministry.

Cross-references · 34

• 1 Tim 4:15–16Be diligent in these matters and absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all.
• 1 Th 5:14And we urge you, brothers, to admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, and be patient with everyone.
• Rev 3:19Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
• Titus 2:15Speak these things as you encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.
• 1 Tim 4:13Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, and to teaching.
• 2 Tim 2:21So if anyone cleanses himself of what is unfit, he will be a vessel for honor: sanctified, useful to the Master, and prepared for every good work.
• Titus 1:13This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sternly, so that they will be sound in the faith
• Gal 6:6Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word must share in all good things with his instructor.
• Rom 12:12Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.
• Col 1:28–29We proclaim Him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.
• Luke 4:18–19“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,
• 2 Tim 3:10You, however, have observed my teaching, my conduct, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my perseverance,
• 1 Tim 5:20But those who persist in sin should be rebuked in front of everyone, so that the others will stand in fear of sin.
• Jonah 3:2“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.”
• Col 1:25I became its servant by the commission God gave me to fully proclaim to you the word of God,
• Rom 10:15And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”
• Acts 16:31–33They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.”
• Acts 20:7On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Since Paul was ready to leave the next day, he talked to them and kept on speaking until midnight.
• Acts 28:30–31Paul stayed there two full years in his own rented house, welcoming all who came to visit him.
• Acts 16:13On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate along the river, where it was customary to find a place of prayer. After sitting down, we spoke to the women who had gathered there.
• John 4:32–34But He told them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
• Isa 61:1–3The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
• Luke 9:60But Jesus told him, “Let the dead bury their own dead. You, however, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”
• Luke 7:23Blessed is the one who does not fall away on account of Me.”
• 1 Th 5:20Do not treat prophecies with contempt,
• Luke 7:4They came to Jesus and pleaded with Him earnestly, “This man is worthy to have You grant this,
• Ps 40:9I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly; behold, I do not seal my lips, as You, O LORD, do know.
• John 4:6–10Since Jacob’s well was there, Jesus, weary from His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
• 2 Tim 2:25He must gently reprove those who oppose him, in the hope that God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth.
• Acts 28:16When we arrived in Rome, Paul was permitted to stay by himself, with a soldier to guard him.
• Acts 20:18–21When they came to him, he said, “You know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I arrived in the province of Asia.
• Heb 13:22I urge you, brothers, to bear with my word of exhortation, for I have only written to you briefly.
• 1 Th 2:11–12For you know that we treated each of you as a father treats his own children—
• Acts 13:5When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. And John was with them as their helper.

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