2 Timothy 3:5
having a form of respect for God, but wide from the power of God. Them who are such, repel from thee.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
In Context
4treacherous, rash, inflated, attached to pleasure more than to the love of God,
Cross References
Matthew 7:15Beware of false prophets; who come to you in the garb of sheep, but internally they are rapacious wolves.
Romans 2:20and an instructor of those lacking knowledge, and a preceptor to the young; and thou hast the appearance of knowledge and of verity in the law:
Ephesians 4:14and that we might not be children, agitated and turned about by every wind of the crafty doctrines of men who plot to seduce by their subtilty:
2 Thessalonians 3:14And if any one hearkeneth not to these my words in this epistle, separate that man from you, and have no intimacy 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 →