2 Timothy 3 (JND) - Bible Truth Library

Library Home>2 Timothy 3 (JND)

Verse 1

Go

Verse 3

Articles on

2 Timothy 3

2 Tim. 3:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

+

2

Foro men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

o

Rom. 1:29‑31• ²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,
³⁰back-biters, hateful to God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
³¹void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, unmerciful; (Rom. 1:29‑31)

Cross References

+

Ministry on This Verse

+

lovers.

2 Tim. 3:4• ⁴traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; (2 Tim. 3:4)

;

Rom. 15:1‑3• ¹But *we* ought, we that are strong, to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
²Let each one of us please his neighbour with a view to what is good, to edification.
³For the Christ also did not please himself; but according as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproach thee have fallen upon me. (Rom. 15:1‑3)

;

2 Cor. 5:15• ¹⁵and he died for all, that they who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them and has been raised. (2 Cor. 5:15)

;

Phil. 2:21• ²¹For all seek their own things, not the things of Jesus Christ. (Phil. 2:21)

;

James 2:8• ⁸If indeed ye keep the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well. (James 2:8)

covetous.

Luke 12:15• ¹⁵And he said to them, Take heed and keep yourselves from all covetousness, for it is not because a man is in abundance that his life is in his possessions. (Luke 12:15)

;

Rom. 1:29• ²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers, (Rom. 1:29)

;

Col. 3:5• ⁵Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry. (Col. 3:5)

;

2 Peter 2:3,14‑15• ³And through covetousness, with well-turned words, will they make merchandise of you: for whom judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction slumbers not.
¹⁴having eyes full of adultery, and that cease not from sin, alluring unestablished souls; having a heart practised in covetousness, children of curse;
¹⁵having left the straight way they have gone astray, having followed in the path of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the reward of unrighteousness; (2 Peter 2:3,14‑15)

;

Jude 11,16• ¹¹Woe to them! because they have gone in the way of Cain, and given themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
¹⁶These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts; and their mouth speaks swelling words, admiring persons for the sake of profit. (Jude 11,16)

;

Rev. 18:12‑13• ¹²lading of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and pearl, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet dye, and all thyine wood, and every article in ivory, and every article in most precious wood, and in brass, and in iron, and in marble,
¹³and cinnamon, and amomum, and incense, and unguent, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep, and of horses, and of chariots, and of bodies, and souls of men. (Rev. 18:12‑13)

boasters.

Psa. 10:3• ³For the wicked boasteth of his soul's desire, and he blesseth the covetous; he contemneth Jehovah. (Psa. 10:3)

;

Psa. 49:6• ⁶They depend upon their wealth, and boast themselves in the abundance of their riches. … (Psa. 49:6)

;

Psa. 52:1• ¹To the chief Musician: an instruction. Of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David came to the house of Ahimelech. Why boastest thou thyself in evil, thou mighty man? The loving-kindness of *God abideth continually. (Psa. 52:1)

;

Isa. 10:15• ¹⁵--Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? shall the saw magnify itself against him that wieldeth it? As if the rod should wield them that lift it up; as if the staff should lift up him who is not wood! (Isa. 10:15)

;

Acts 5:36• ³⁶for before these days Theudas rose up, alleging himself to be somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, were joined; who was slain, and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed and came to nothing. (Acts 5:36)

;

Rom. 1:29‑31• ²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,
³⁰back-biters, hateful to God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
³¹void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, unmerciful; (Rom. 1:29‑31)

;

Rom. 11:18• ¹⁸boast not against the branches; but if thou boast, it is not *thou* bearest the root, but the root thee. (Rom. 11:18)

;

2 Thess. 2:4• ⁴who opposes and exalts himself on high against all called God, or object of veneration; so that he himself sits down in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. (2 Thess. 2:4)

;

James 4:16• ¹⁶But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil. (James 4:16)

;

2 Peter 2:18• ¹⁸For while speaking great highflown words of vanity, they allure with the lusts of the flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk in error, (2 Peter 2:18)

;

Jude 16• ¹⁶These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts; and their mouth speaks swelling words, admiring persons for the sake of profit. (Jude 16)

proud.

Prov. 6:17• ¹⁷haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood; (Prov. 6:17)

;

1 Tim. 6:4• ⁴he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, out of which arise envy, strife, injurious words, evil suspicions, (1 Tim. 6:4)

;

James 4:6• ⁶But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God sets himself against the proud, but gives grace to the lowly. (James 4:6)

;

1 Peter 5:5• ⁵Likewise ye younger, be subject to the elder, and all of you bind on humility towards one another; for God sets himself against the proud, but to the humble gives grace. (1 Peter 5:5)

blasphemers.

Dan. 7:25• ²⁵And he shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most high places, and think to change seasons and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and a half time. (Dan. 7:25)

;

Dan. 11:36• ³⁶And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every *god, and speak monstrous things against the *God of *gods; and he shall prosper until the indignation be accomplished: for that which is determined shall be done. (Dan. 11:36)

;

1 Tim. 1:20• ²⁰of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may be taught by discipline not to blaspheme. (1 Tim. 1:20)

;

2 Peter 2:12• ¹²But these, as natural animals without reason, made to be caught and destroyed, speaking injuriously in things they are ignorant of, shall also perish in their own corruption, (2 Peter 2:12)

;

Jude 10• ¹⁰But these, whatever things they know not, they speak railingly against; but what even, as the irrational animals, they understand by mere nature, in these things they corrupt themselves. (Jude 10)

;

Rev. 13:1,5‑6• ¹And I stood upon the sand of the sea; and I saw a beast rising out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and upon its horns ten diadems, and upon its heads names of blasphemy.
⁵And there was given to it a mouth, speaking great things and blasphemies; and there was given to it authority to pursue its career forty-two months.
⁶And it opened its mouth for blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle, and those who have their tabernacle in the heaven. (Rev. 13:1,5‑6)

;

Rev. 16:9,11,21• ⁹And the men were burnt with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues, and did not repent to give him glory.
¹¹and blasphemed the God of the heaven for their distresses and their sores, and did not repent of their works.
²¹and a great hail, as of a talent weight, comes down out of the heaven upon men; and men blasphemed God because of the plague of hail, for the plague of it is exceeding great. (Rev. 16:9,11,21)

disobedient.

Matt. 15:6• ⁶and he shall in no wise honour his father or his mother; and ye have made void the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching. (Matt. 15:6)

;

Mark 7:11‑12• ¹¹But *ye* say, If a man say to his father or his mother, It is corban (that is, gift), whatsoever thou mightest have profit from me by …
¹²And ye no longer suffer him to do anything for his father or his mother; (Mark 7:11‑12)

;

Rom. 1:30• ³⁰back-biters, hateful to God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, (Rom. 1:30)

• If we compare the list of sins and abominations which Paul gives at the beginning of the epistle to the Romans, as characterizing heathen life, and the moral degradation of men during those times of darkness and demon-worship, with the catalog of sins that characterize those who have the form of godliness, we shall find that it is nearly the same, and morally quite the same (“2 Timothy 3” by J.N. Darby)

• It is no small consolation to remember that He who has forewarned us of these things is Himself all-sufficient to sustain, and to enable us to walk in His ways in the midst of surrounding and growing dangers. (article #86520)

J. N. Darby Translation

+

2

for men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, evil speakers, disobedient to parents, ungratefulh, profane,

JND Translation Notes

+

h

Or "ungracious." Cf. Luke 6.35.

W. Kelly Translation

+

2

For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholya,

WK Translation Notes

+

a

The word is not "agios" (separate from evil to God), but "osios" (holy in the sense of gracious and merciful).