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# For the time will come when
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"Because at some time in the future"
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# people
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The context indicates that these will be people who are a part of the community of believers.
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# will not endure truthful teaching
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Alternate translation: "will no longer want to listen to true teaching"
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# truthful teaching
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The Greek word translated "truthful, is a word meaning "healthy" and here is a dead metaphor for true, trustworthy, and morally good. Alternate translation: "trustworthy words" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphordead]])
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The word "healthy" here is a dead metaphor for true, trustworthy, and morally good. See how you translated "healthy" in [2 Timothy 1:13](../01/13.md). Alternate translation: "trustworthy teaching" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphordead]])
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# they will heap up for themselves teachers according to their own desires
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Paul speaks of people obtaining many teachers as if it were putting them into a heap or pile. Alternate translation: "they will listen to many teachers who assure them that there is nothing wrong with their sinful desires" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# who say what their itching ears want to hear
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Paul speaks of people strongly wanting to hear something as if their ears itched and could only be satisfied if teachers taught them what they wanted to hear. Alternate translation: "who say only what they want so much to hear" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]])
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