2Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. …
Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)Observe, I. How awfully this charge is introduced (2Ti. 4:1): I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom. Observe, The best of men have need to be awed into the discharge of their duty. The work of a minister is not an indifferent thing, but absolutely necessary. Woe be to him if he preach not the gospel, 1Cor. 9:16.…
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