² preach ^(A)the word; be ready ^[a]in season and out of season; ^(B)correct, rebuke, and ^[b]exhort, with ^[c]great ^(C)patience and instruction. ³ For ^(D)the time will come when they will not tolerate ^(E)sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires, ⁴ and they ^(F)will turn their ears away from the truth and ^(G)will turn aside to myths.

Abandonment of Faith

4 But ^(A)the Spirit explicitly says that ^(B)in later times some will ^[a]fall away from the faith, paying attention to ^(C)deceitful spirits and ^(D)teachings of demons, ² by means of the hypocrisy of liars ^(E)seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron,