^{2 Ref} preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.

^{3 Ref} 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 Ref} and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to fables.

^{5 Ref} But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.