2 Timothy 3:5
and while they retain the outward form of religion, they will not allow it to influence them. Turn your back on such men as these.
Twentieth Century New Testament
In The King James Version
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
In Context
4treacherous, reckless, and puffed up with pride; they will love pleasure more than they love God;
Cross References
Matthew 7:15Beware of false Teachers — men who come to you in the guise of sheep, but at heart they are ravenous wolves.
Romans 2:20and a teacher of the childish, because in the Law you possess the outline of all Knowledge and Truth.
Ephesians 4:14Then we shall no longer be like infants, tossed backward and forward, blown about by every breath of human teaching, through the trickery and the craftiness of men, towards the snares of error;
2 Thessalonians 3:14If any one disregards what we have said in this letter, mark that man and avoid his company, that he may feel 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 →