What Does the Bible Say About Tickle Their Ears?

2 Timothy 4:3 ESV / 39 helpful votes

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,

2 Timothy 4:4 ESV / 26 helpful votes

And will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

2 Timothy 4:1-22 ESV / 23 helpful votes

I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. ...

2 Timothy 4:2-4 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

Proverbs 17:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

An evildoer listens to wicked lips, and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

1 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

Ezekiel 22:28 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord has not spoken.

Jeremiah 6:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“For from the least to the greatest of them, everyone is greedy for unjust gain; and from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.

Jeremiah 5:31 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?

1 John 4:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

2 Peter 2:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

1 Peter 1:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,

Matthew 24:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

Matthew 7:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

2 Peter 2:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

2 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.

2 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

Acts 17:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Isaiah 30:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Who say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions,

John 1:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Matthew 24:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.

Isaiah 30:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For they are a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the instruction of the Lord;

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

2 Corinthians 11:13-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...

Jeremiah 23:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from his evil; all of them have become like Sodom to me, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”

Isaiah 9:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The elder and honored man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail;

Revelation 20:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Revelation 19:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

2 Peter 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you.

2 Timothy 3:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

While evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

1 Thessalonians 2:9-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers. For you know how, like a father with his children, we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

Romans 6:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ...

Matthew 23:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

35 Bible Verses about Tickle Their Ears

2 Timothy 4:3 ESV / 39 helpful votes

2 Timothy 4:4 ESV / 26 helpful votes

2 Timothy 4:1-22 ESV / 23 helpful votes

2 Timothy 4:2-4 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Proverbs 17:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Ezekiel 22:28 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Jeremiah 6:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Jeremiah 5:31 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 John 4:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

2 Peter 2:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Matthew 24:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Matthew 7:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes

2 Peter 2:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Acts 17:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Isaiah 30:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 1:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 24:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Isaiah 30:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 11:13-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jeremiah 23:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 9:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Revelation 20:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 19:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Peter 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 2:9-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 6:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 23:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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35 Bible Verses about Tickle Their Ears

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2 Timothy 4:3 ESV / 39 helpful votes

2 Timothy 4:4 ESV / 26 helpful votes

2 Timothy 4:1-22 ESV / 23 helpful votes

2 Timothy 4:2-4 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Proverbs 17:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Ezekiel 22:28 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Jeremiah 6:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Jeremiah 5:31 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 John 4:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

2 Peter 2:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Matthew 24:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Matthew 7:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes

2 Peter 2:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Acts 17:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Isaiah 30:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 1:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 24:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Isaiah 30:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 11:13-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jeremiah 23:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 9:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Revelation 20:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 19:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Peter 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 2:9-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 6:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 23:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes