2
Timothy 4:2
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season;
reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
a. NLT: Preach the word of God. Be
prepared, whether the time is favorable or not. Patiently correct, rebuke, and
encourage your people with good teaching.
b. NIV: Preach the word; be
prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great
patience and careful instruction.
c. Young’s Literal Translation: preach
the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all
long-suffering and teaching,
d. Amplified Bible: Herald and preach
the Word! Keep your sense of urgency [stand by, be at hand and ready], whether
the opportunity seems to be favorable or unfavorable. [Whether it is convenient
or inconvenient, whether it is welcome or unwelcome, you as preacher of the
Word are to show people in what way their lives are wrong.] And convince them,
rebuking and correcting, warning and urging and encouraging
them, being unflagging and inexhaustible in patience and teaching.
1. “Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season…”
a. instant [2186 * ephistemi;
epi-by, near, upon; histemi-to stand] [Zodhiates: to place oneself upon or
near, to stand upon, by, near.] [Strong: to stand upon, i.e. be present (in
various applications, friendly or otherwise, usually literal); --assault, come
(in, to, unto, upon), be at hand (instant), present, stand (before, by, over).]
b. in season [2122 * eukairos;
eu-well, good; kairos-season] [Zodhiates: opportunely, convienently, in
season.] [Strong: opportunely:--conveniently, in season.]
c. out of season [171 * akairos;
a-negative; kairos-season] [Zodhiates: inopportunely, unseasonably.] [Strong: inopportunely:--out
of season.
1). 1 Peter 3:15 But sanctify the
Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man
that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear.
2). We are to always be ready to
give the word, when it’s the opportune time and when its not the opportune
time.
2. “…reprove, rebuke, exhort…”
a.
reprove [1651 * elegcho] [Zodhiates: In th NT, to
convict, to prove one in the wrong and thus to shame him…to convince of
error…to reprove by chastisement, correct.] [Strong: of uncertain affinity; to
confute, admonish:--convict, convince, tell a fault, rebuke, reprove.]
1). Examples: John 16:8, “he will
reprove the world of sin”; 1 Timothy 5:20, “them that sin rebuke before all;”
Titus 1:13, “rebuke them sharply”; Titus 2:15, “rebuke with all authority”;
Revelation 3:19, “As many as I love, I rebuke”.
2). There is an interesting passage
in Jeremiah that indicates people can get in bondage to the point they refuse
to be ashamed.
a). Jeremiah 3:3 Therefore the
showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou
hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusest to be ashamed.
b). I made up a saying from Proverbs
16:31 and Jeremiah 3:3 that goes, “I’d rather have a hoary head, than a whores
forehead.”
b.
rebuke [epitimao * 2008] [Zodhiates: In the N.T. to
punish, rebuke, charge. By implication, to admonish strongly, with urgency,
authority. One may rebuke another without bringing that one to a conviction of
any fault, perhaps because there may have not been any fault or because there
was fault but the rebuke was insufficient and ineffectual to bring the offender
to acknowledge it. Therefore, epitimao is merely the rebuke without any result
in the person who is being rebuked.]
c.
exhort [parakaleo * 3870] [Zodhiates: to aid, help,
comfort, encourage.]
3. “…with all longsuffering and doctrine.”
a. longsuffering [3115 *
makrothumia] [Zodhiates: Forbearance, longsuffering, self-restraint before
proceeding to action. The quality of a person who is able to avenge himself yet
refrains from doing so.]
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