2 Timothy 3:3
1 But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come.
2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good,
4 traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good,
- KJV
- Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
- WEB
- without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,
- ASV
- without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
- DARBY
- without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good,
- BLB
- unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without control, savage, without love of good,
- ÅB
- ukjærlige, upålitelige, baktalende, umåtelige, umilde, uten kjærlighet til det gode,
- OTB
- ukjærlige, uforsonlige, onde sladderere, uten selvbeherskelse, brutale, hatere av det gode,
- B1930
- ukjærlige, upålitelige, baktalende, umåtelige, umilde, uten kjærlighet til det gode,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jude 1:18
when they said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow after their own ungodly desires.”
Read in contextRomans 1:31
They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.
Read in contextMatthew 10:21
Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
Read in context2 Peter 2:14
Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.
Read in context1 Timothy 3:11
In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.
Read in contextMatthew 4:1
Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
Read in contextDaniel 8:23
In the latter part of their reign, when the rebellion has reached its full measure, an insolent king, skilled in intrigue, will come to the throne.
Read in contextLuke 10:16
Whoever listens to you listens to Me; whoever rejects you rejects Me; and whoever rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”
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