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NASB | 2 Timothy 4:2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Timothy 4:2 preach the word [as an official messenger]; be ready when the time is right and even when it is not [keep your sense of urgency, whether the opportunity seems favorable or unfavorable, whether convenient or inconvenient, whether welcome or unwelcome]; correct [those who err in doctrine or behavior], warn [those who sin], exhort and encourage [those who are growing toward spiritual maturity], with inexhaustible patience and [faithful] teaching. |
Subject: Contemporizing Christians Message? |
Bible Note: ACK! I hate that phrase "make it relevant to today!" As if the very Words of the Holy Lord God Himself, the Creator of everything, could say ANYTHING that wasn't imminently, essentially, and thoroughly pertinent. ACK! Young lady, this forum is founded on sola Scriptura. Go read again about the sufficiency, clarity, and necessity of the Scripture. You can find it in Part 1 of Wayne Grudem's Systematic Theology. You should know these things... or your Bible school is anything but a school of the Bible. We do not amend the message of Scripture by finding creative ways to present, transform, and translate... we exposit. We expose the truth of Scripture. We stand upon it. We do not ever attempt to augment it, polish it, spruce it up. Any such efforts only detract from it. ACK! I say again... ACK! |