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2 Tim. 3:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Without natural affection, trucebreakers, ηfalse accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

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or, make-bates.

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Matt. 10:21• ²¹But brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents and shall put them to death; (Matt. 10:21)

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Rom. 1:31• ³¹void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, unmerciful; (Rom. 1:31)

trucebreakers.

2 Sam. 21:1‑3• ¹And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of Jehovah. And Jehovah said, It is for Saul, and for his house of blood, because he slew the Gibeonites.
²And the king called the Gibeonites, and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remainder of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn to them; and Saul sought to smite them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah.)
³And David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and with what shall I make atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of Jehovah? (2 Sam. 21:1‑3)

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Psa. 15:4• ⁴In whose eyes the depraved person is contemned, and who honoureth them that fear Jehovah; who, if he have sworn to his own hurt, changeth it not; (Psa. 15:4)

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Ezek. 17:15‑19• ¹⁵But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? shall he break the covenant, and yet escape?
¹⁶As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, verily in the place of the king that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him, in the midst of Babylon, shall he die.
¹⁷Neither shall Pharaoh with a mighty army and a great assemblage do anything for him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts to cut off many persons.
¹⁸He despised the oath, and broke the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, yet hath he done all these things: he shall not escape.
¹⁹Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: As I live, verily, mine oath which he hath despised, and my covenant which he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his head. (Ezek. 17:15‑19)

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Rom. 1:31• ³¹void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, unmerciful; (Rom. 1:31)

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false accusers.

or, make-bates.

Matt. 4:1• ¹Then Jesus was carried up into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted of the devil: (Matt. 4:1)

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John 6:70• ⁷⁰Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you the twelve? and of you one is a devil. (John 6:70)

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1 Tim. 3:11• ¹¹The women in like manner grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. (1 Tim. 3:11)

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Titus 2:3• ³that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as becoming those who have to say to sacred things, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is right; (Titus 2:3)

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incontinent.

1 Cor. 7:5,9• ⁵Defraud not one another, unless, it may be, by consent for a time, that ye may devote yourselves to prayer, and again be together, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.
⁹But if they have not control over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn. (1 Cor. 7:5,9)

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2 Peter 2:14,19• ¹⁴having eyes full of adultery, and that cease not from sin, alluring unestablished souls; having a heart practised in covetousness, children of curse;
¹⁹promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is subdued, by him is he also brought into slavery. (2 Peter 2:14,19)

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2 Peter 3:3• ³knowing this first, that there shall come at the close of the days mockers with mocking, walking according to their own lusts, (2 Peter 3:3)

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Jude 16,18• ¹⁶These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts; and their mouth speaks swelling words, admiring persons for the sake of profit.
¹⁸that they said to you, that at the end of the time there should be mockers, walking after their own lusts of ungodlinesses. (Jude 16,18)

fierce.

Gen. 49:7• ⁷Cursed be their anger, for it was violent; And their rage, for it was cruel! I will divide them in Jacob, And scatter them in Israel. (Gen. 49:7)

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Dan. 8:23• ²³And at the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors shall have come to the full, a king of bold countenance, and understanding riddles, shall stand up. (Dan. 8:23)

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Rev. 13:15,17• ¹⁵And it was given to it to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should also speak, and should cause that as many as should not do homage to the image of the beast should be killed.
¹⁷and that no one should be able to buy or sell save he that had the mark, the name of the beast, or the number of its name. (Rev. 13:15,17)

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Rev. 16:6• ⁶for they have poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; they are worthy. (Rev. 16:6)

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Rev. 17:6• ⁶And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And I wondered, seeing her, with great wonder. (Rev. 17:6)

despisers.

Psa. 22:6• ⁶But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and the despised of the people. (Psa. 22:6)

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Isa. 53:3• ³He is despised and left alone of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, and like one from whom men hide their faces;--despised, and we esteemed him not. (Isa. 53:3)

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Isa. 60:14• ¹⁴And the children of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee The city of Jehovah, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel. (Isa. 60:14)

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Luke 10:16• ¹⁶He that hears you hears me; and he that rejects you rejects me; and he that rejects me rejects him that sent me. (Luke 10:16)

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Luke 16:14• ¹⁴And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and mocked him. (Luke 16:14)

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1 Thess. 4:8• ⁸He therefore that in this disregards his brother, disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you. (1 Thess. 4:8)

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James 2:6• ⁶But *ye* have despised the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and do not *they* drag you before the tribunals? (James 2:6)

J. N. Darby Translation

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without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is goodi,

JND Translation Notes

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Or "the good" (persons).

W. Kelly Translation

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without natural affectiona, implacable, slanderers, uncontrolled, fierce, haters of good,

WK Translation Notes

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The KJV gives the simple, full, and unambiguous meaning of (astorgoi) "without natural affection." Some few authorities of all kinds invert their relative order; but this would seem strange disorder morally, compared with the true place of each as represented by the best witnesses.