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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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natural.

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

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

trucebreakers.

2 Sam. 21:1‑3• (2 Sam. 21:1‑3)

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Psa. 15:4• (Psa. 15:4)

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Ezek. 17:15‑19• (Ezek. 17:15‑19)

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

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Rom. 1• (Rom. 1)

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false accusers.

or, make-bates.

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

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John 6:70• ⁷⁰[Jesus] answered them, Did I not choose you the twelve? And one of you is a devil. (John 6:70)

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1 Tim. 3:11• ¹¹Women likewise [must be] grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things. (1 Tim. 3:11)

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Titus 2:3• ³that aged women likewise be in deportment reverent, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of good; (Titus 2:3)

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incontinent.

1 Cor. 7:5,9• ⁵Defraud not one another, unless by consent for a time, that ye may have leisure for prayer and again be together, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.
⁹But if they have not continency 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 an adulteress and without cessation from sin; setting baits for unstable souls; having a heart practiced in covetousness, children of curse;
¹⁹promising them liberty while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is worsted, by him is he also held in bondage. (2 Peter 2:14,19)

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2 Peter 3:3• ³knowing this first, that in the last of the days mockers shall come with mockery 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 speaketh swelling things, admiring persons for the sake of profit.
¹⁸that they said to you, In [the] end of the time shall be mockers walking after their own lusts of ungodliness. (Jude 16,18)

fierce.

Gen. 49:7• (Gen. 49:7)

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Dan. 8:23• (Dan. 8:23)

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Rev. 13:15,17• ¹⁵And it was given him to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause [that] as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
¹⁷and that no one may be able to buy or sell, save he that hath the mark, the name of the beast, or the number of his name. (Rev. 13:15,17)

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Rev. 16:6• ⁶For they shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou gavest 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 when I saw her, I wondered with great wonder. (Rev. 17:6)

despisers.

Psa. 22:6• (Psa. 22:6)

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Isa. 53:3• (Isa. 53:3)

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Isa. 60:14• (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• ¹⁴{i}And the Pharisees also, who were covetous,{/i} heard all these things, {i}and{/i} sneered at him. (Luke 16:14)

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1 Thess. 4:8• ⁸Wherefore then he that disregardeth disregardeth not man but God that [also] gave his Holy Spirit unto you. (1 Thess. 4:8)

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James 2:6• ⁶But ye dishonoured the poor [man]. Do not the rich oppress you, and they drag you before 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.