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 things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.
• 1 Th 5:14We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.
• Rev 3:19As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
• Titus 2:15Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise you.
• 1 Tim 4:13Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.
• 2 Tim 2:21If 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 1:13This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
• Gal 6:6But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.
• Rom 12:12rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;
• Col 1:28–29whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;
• 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 heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
• 2 Tim 3:10But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,
• 1 Tim 5:20Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.
• Jonah 3:2“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.”
• Col 1:25of which I was made a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you, to fulfill the word of God,
• Rom 10:15And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”
• Acts 16:31–33They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
• Acts 20:7On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.
• Acts 28:30–31Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house, and received all who were coming to him,
• Acts 16:13On the Sabbath day we went outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down, and spoke to the women who had come together.
• John 4:32–34But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”
• Isa 61:1–3The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
• Luke 9:60But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”
• Luke 7:23Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”
• 1 Th 5:20Don’t despise prophesies.
• Luke 7:4When they came to Jesus, they begged him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy for you to do this for him,
• Ps 40:9I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
• John 4:6–10Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
• 2 Tim 2:25in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,
• Acts 28:16When we entered into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard, but Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him.
• Acts 20:18–21When they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,
• Heb 13:22But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation; for I have written to you in few words.
• 1 Th 2:11–12As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
• Acts 13:5When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. They had also John as their attendant.

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