2 Timothy 4:3
King James Version
8 Jun 2026
“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;”
ἐπιθυμία
Desire, craving, longing. Epithumia. Do not fulfil the desires of the flesh. The flesh pulls toward what destroys. The Spirit pulls toward what gives life. Choose which you feed.
διδασκαλία
teaching
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διδασκαλία
Teaching, instruction, doctrine. Didaskalia. All Scripture is profitable for doctrine. Sound doctrine is the skeleton of the body. Without it everything collapses.
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ὅτε
when
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ὅτε
When, at the time when, after. When the fullness of time had come God sent His Son. God's timing is always right. He never acts too early or too late.
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καιρός
a time
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καιρός
A season, an appointed time. In due season we shall reap if we do not give up. God has appointed the right time for everything in your life.
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ἑαυτοῦ
to themselves
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ἑαυτοῦ
him- (her-, it-, them-, also (in conjunction with the personal pronoun of the other persons) my-, thy-, our-, your-) self (selves), etc.
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ὑγιαίνω
sound
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ὑγιαίνω
to have sound health, i.e. be well (in body); figuratively, to be uncorrupt (true in doctrine)
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ἴδιος
their] own
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ἴδιος
pertaining to self, i.e. one's own; by implication, private or separate
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ἐπισωρεύω
they will gather around them
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ἐπισωρεύω
they will gather around them
to accumulate further, i.e. (figuratively) seek additionally
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κνήθω
having an itching
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κνήθω
to scratch, i.e. (by implication) to tickle
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διδάσκαλος
teachers
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διδάσκαλος
an instructor (genitive case or specially)
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εἰμί
There will be
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εἰμί
I exist (used only when emphatic)
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