2 Timothy 3:3

2 Timothy 3:3

Perilous Times and Perilous Men

1 But know this, that ^ain the last days perilous times will come:

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.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Implacable (aspondoi). Truce-breakers. Old word, only here in N.T. though in MSS. in Romans 1:31 (from a privative and spondh, a libation).

Slanderers (diaboloi). See I Timothy 3:11; Titus 2:3.

Without self-control (akrateiv). Old word (a privative and kratov), here only in N.T.

Fierce (anhmeroi). Old word (a privative and hmerov, tame), only here in N.T.

No lovers of good (afilagaqoi). Found only here (a privative and filagaqov, for which see Titus 1:8). See also Philippians 4:8. A papyrus describes Antoninus as filagaqov and has afilokagaqia.

**Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 2 Timothy 3:3:**

Matthew 4:1
Romans 1:31
Titus 2:3

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