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For there shall be a time, when they will not endure sound doctrine; but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears: ERV. The time will come when people will not listen to the true teaching. But people will find more and more teachers who please them.
- Bible Gateway passage: 2 Timothy 4:3-4 - King James Version
2 Timothy 4:3-4. King James Version. 3 For the time will...
- Bible Gateway passage: 2 Timothy 4:3-4 - King James Version
10 Ιουλ 2023 · Paul warns the church to avoid teachers who say what their ears want to hear, rather than sound doctrine. Learn the meaning, context, and application of this phrase in the Bible.
Having itching ears (κνηθόμενοι τὴν ἀκοήν); only here in the New Testament. The phrase, κνησέως ὤτων , is ascribed by Plutarch to Plato (Alford), "scratching the (itching) ear;" κνᾶσθαι τὰ ῶτα , "to tickle the ears" (Lucian); ἀποκναίουσιν ἡμῶν τὰ ᾤτα (Philo, ap. Ellicott).
2 Timothy 4:3-4. King James Version. 3 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; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. Read full chapter.
2 Timothy 4:3. NIV For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
Having itching ears; for their ears itch, and they must have those that will scratch them. The disease of lust in their souls brings forth an itch in their ears, that they will have a mind to hear only such as will by scratching please them.
The sober, sound doctrine of the Word of God, teaching self-discipline, humility, and purity of heart and life, will not assuage their itching ears, and therefore they will turn away from it, and go after more congenial fables - those taught by the heretics.
