3. 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.

6. What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus.

9. Mark 16:15 He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.

10. Matthew 28:19 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

11. Acts 1:8 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

12. Acts 5:32 32 We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

13. Romans 1:9 9 God, whom I serve in my spirit in preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you