2 Timothy 3:5
Having an appearance indeed of godliness, but denying the power thereof. Now these avoid.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
In Context
4Traitors, stubborn, puffed up, and lovers of pleasures more than of God:
Cross References
Isaiah 29:13And the Lord said: Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips glorify me, but their heart is far from me, and they have feared me with the commandment and doctrines of men:
Isaiah 58:1Cry, cease not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their wicked doings, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Matthew 7:15Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Romans 2:20An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law.
Ephesians 4:14That henceforth we be no more children tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the wickedness of men, by cunning craftiness, by which they lie in wait to deceive
2 Thessalonians 3:14And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed:
Matthew Henry on 2 Timothy 3:2-10
Marks of Perilous Times. ( a. d. 66.) 1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6 For of… Read the whole commentary →