episoreuo describes people gathering teachers for themselves to suit their own passions.

The attested use describes people gathering teachers for themselves in accordance with their own passions, in contrast to enduring sound teaching.

1. Gathering teachers for oneself · dominant

   In 2 Timothy 4:3, the future active indicative plural form occurs in the contrast between not enduring sound teaching and gathering teachers to suit personal passions; the APB renders the clause “they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions.”

   2 Timothy 4:3

In the Anselm Project Bible: In 2 Timothy 4:3, the APB presents the action as “accumulate for themselves teachers,”.