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2 Tim. 3:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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Rom. 1:29‑31• ²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, ill-will; whisperers,
³⁰slanderers, God-hated, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
³¹void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, pitiless; (Rom. 1:29‑31)

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lovers.

2 Tim. 3:4• ⁴traitors, headstrong, puffed up, pleasure-lovers rather than God-lovers, (2 Tim. 3:4)

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Rom. 15:1‑3• ¹But we, the strong, ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves.
²Let each of us please his neighbour unto good for edification.
³For even Christ pleased not himself, but even as it is written, “The reproaches of those that are reproaching thee fell on me.” (Rom. 15:1‑3)

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

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Phil. 2:21• ²¹for they all seek their own things, not those of Jesus Christ. (Phil. 2:21)

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

covetous.

Luke 12:15• ¹⁵{i}And{/i} 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)

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

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Col. 3:5• ⁵Put to death therefore your members that [are] on the earth, fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; (Col. 3:5)

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2 Peter 2:3,14‑15• ³And in covetousness with feigned words, they shall make merchandise of you: for whom judgment from of old is not idle, and their perdition slumbereth not.
¹⁴having eyes full of an adulteress and without cessation from sin; setting baits for unstable souls; having a heart practiced in covetousness, children of curse;
¹⁵abandoning as they did a straight way, they went astray, following out in the way of Balaam [son] of Beor, who loved wages of unrighteousness, (2 Peter 2:3,14‑15)

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Jude 11,16• ¹¹Woe unto them! because they went in the way of Cain, and rushed greedily into the error of Balaam's hire, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.
¹⁶These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts, and their mouth speaketh swelling things, admiring persons for the sake of profit. (Jude 11,16)

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Rev. 18:12‑13• ¹²lading of gold and of silver and of precious stone and of pearl and of fine linen and of purple and of silk and of scarlet; and all thyine wood and all furniture of ivory and all furniture of most precious wood, and of brass and of iron and of 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• (Psa. 10:3)

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Psa. 49:6• (Psa. 49:6)

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Psa. 52:1• (Psa. 52:1)

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Isa. 10:15• (Isa. 10:15)

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Acts 5:36• ³⁶For before these days, rose up Theudas, saying that he himself was somebody, with whom a number of men, about four hundred, took sides; who was slain, and all as many as obeyed him were dispersed, and came to nothing. (Acts 5:36)

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Rom. 1:29‑31• ²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, ill-will; whisperers,
³⁰slanderers, God-hated, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
³¹void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, pitiless; (Rom. 1:29‑31)

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Rom. 11:18• ¹⁸boast not against the branches; but if thou boastest against [them], thou bearest not the root but the root thee. (Rom. 11:18)

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2 Thess. 2:4• ⁴he that opposeth and exalteth himself exceedingly against every one called god, or object of veneration; so that he sitteth down in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. (2 Thess. 2:4)

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

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2 Peter 2:18• ¹⁸For uttering overswellings of vanity, they allure in lusts of the flesh, by dissolutenesses, those that are just escaping from them that walk in error, (2 Peter 2:18)

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

proud.

Prov. 6:17• (Prov. 6:17)

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1 Tim. 6:4• ⁴he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but sick about questionings and word-disputes, out of which cometh envy, strife, revilings, evil suspicions, (1 Tim. 6:4)

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James 4:6• ⁶But he giveth more grace; wherefore he saith, God setteth himself against haughty [men], but giveth grace to lowly. (James 4:6)

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1 Peter 5:5• ⁵Likewise, ye younger, be subject to elders; and all of you bind on humility to one another; because God setteth himself against haughty ones, and giveth grace to lowly. (1 Peter 5:5)

blasphemers.

Dan. 7:25• (Dan. 7:25)

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Dan. 11:36• (Dan. 11:36)

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

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2 Peter 2:12• ¹²But these, as irrational animals born by nature for capture and destruction, speaking evil in what things they are ignorant, shall also perish in their corruption, (2 Peter 2:12)

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Jude 10• ¹⁰But these rail at whatever things they know not; but whatever they understand naturally, as the irrational animals, in these things they corrupt themselves. (Jude 10)

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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 on his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names of blasphemy.
⁵And there was given him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemy; and there was given him authority to work forty-two months.
⁶And he opened his mouth unto blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle [and] those that tabernacle in the heaven. (Rev. 13:1,5‑6)

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Rev. 16:9,11,21• ⁹And the men were scorched with great scorching, and blasphemed the name of God that had authority over these plagues; and they repented not to give him glory.
¹¹and blasphemed the God of the heaven for their pains and for their sores, and repented not of their works.
²¹And great hail as of a talent's weight cometh down out of the heaven upon men: and men blasphemed God for the plague of the hail; because the plague thereof is exceeding great. (Rev. 16:9,11,21)

disobedient.

Matt. 15:6• ⁶{i}and 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.{/i} (Matt. 15:6)

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Mark 7:11‑12• ¹¹{i}But{/i} ye say, If a man say to his father or mother, It is corban, that is, gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
¹²and ye suffer him no more to do anything for his father or his mother, (Mark 7:11‑12)

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Rom. 1:30• ³⁰slanderers, God-hated, insolent, haughty, boastful, 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

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

JND Translation Notes

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Or "ungracious." Cf. Luke 6.35.

W. Kelly Translation

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

WK Translation Notes

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