2Timothy 4:3–4 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB) 3 For there will be a time when they will not put up with sound teaching, but in accordance with their own desires, they will 1Timothy 4:3. ESV who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. NIV They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. NASB who 2Timothy 4:4 Context. 1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after 3For 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 2Timothy 3:4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; a strained meaning has to be given to some of the terms. It seems, therefore, best simply to understand the catalogue as representing the various more prominent vices which appeared on the surface of Christian society, and threatened the very existence 1Timothy 4New International Version. 4 The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 2 Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. 3 They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain 1Timothy 4:10. To this end we labor and strive, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of everyone, and especially of those who believe. 2 Timothy 2:25. He must gently reprove those who oppose him, in the hope that God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth. Clarkes Commentary. Verse 1 Timothy 4:3. Forbidding to marry — These hypocritical priests pretending that a single life was much more favourable to devotion, and to the perfection of the Christian life. This sentiment was held by the Essenes, a religious sect among the Jews; and we know that it is a favourite opinion among the Romanists, who tJ68.