2 Timothy 3:4

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2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

3 unloving,¹ unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,

4 ^atraitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

5 ^ahaving a form of godliness but ^bdenying its power. And ^cfrom such people turn away!

6 For ^aof this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

7 always learning and never able ^ato come to the knowledge of the truth.

8 ^aNow as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: ^bmen of corrupt minds, ^cdisapproved concerning the faith;

9 but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, ^aas theirs also was.

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10 ^aBut you have carefully followed my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, perseverance,

11 persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me ^aat Antioch, ^bat Iconium, ^cat Lystra—what persecutions I endured. And ^dout of them all the Lord delivered me.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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2 Timothy 3:4

Traitors - · From , before, and , to deliver up. Those who deliver up to an enemy the person who has put his life in their hands; such as the Scots of 1648, who delivered up into the hands of his enemies their unfortunate countryman and king, Charles the First; a stain which no lapse of ages can wipe out.

Heady - · From , forwards, and , to fall; headstrong, precipitate, rash, inconsiderate.

High-minded - · From , smoke; the frivolously aspiring; those who are full of themselves, and empty of all good.

Lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God - This is nervously and beautifully expressed in the Greek, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; i.e. pleasure, sensual gratification, is their god; and this they love and serve; God they do not.

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