2 Timothy 3:4

treacherous, reckless, and puffed up with pride; they will love pleasure more than they love God;

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In The King James Version

Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

In Context

3incapable of affection, merciless, slanderous, wanting in self-control, brutal, careless of the right,

5and while they retain the outward form of religion, they will not allow it to influence them. Turn your back on such people as these.

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Cross References

Romans 11:20True, it was because of their want of faith that they were broken off, and it is because of your faith that you are standing. Do not think too highly of yourself, but beware.

Philippians 3:18For there are many – of whom I have often told you, and now tell you even with tears – who are living in enmity to the cross of the Christ.

1 Timothy 5:6But the life of a widow who is devoted to pleasure is a living death.

2 Peter 2:10especially those who, following the promptings of their lower nature, indulge their polluting passions and despise all control. Audacious and self-willed, they feel no awe of the celestial beings, maligning them,

Jude 1:8Yet in the same way these people, too, cherishing vain dreams, pollute our human nature, reject control, and malign the celestial beings.

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 →

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