2 Timothy 3:4

treacherous, headstrong, self-important. They will love pleasure instead of loving God,

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3destitute of natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers. They will have no self-control, but will be brutal, opposed to goodness,

5and will keep up a make-believe of piety and yet live in defiance of its power. Turn away from people of this sort.

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Cross References

Romans 11:20This is true; yet it was their unbelief that cut them off, and you only stand through your faith.

Philippians 3:18For there are many whom I have often described to you, and I now even with tears describe them, as being enemies to the Cross of Christ.

1 Timothy 5:6but a pleasure-loving widow is dead even while still alive.

2 Peter 2:10and especially those who are abandoned to sensuality--craving, as they do, for polluted things, and scorning control. Fool-hardy and self-willed, they do not tremble when speaking evil of glorious beings;

Jude 1:8Yet in just the same way these dreamers also pollute the body, while they set authority at naught and speak evil of dignities.

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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