2 Timothy 3:2

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2 Timothy 3:2

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Summary

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Lovers

James 2:8

Covetous

Boasters

Jude 1:16

Proud

1 Timothy 6:4

James 4:6

1 Peter 5:5

Blasphemers

Revelation 16:9

Disobedient

Matthew 15:6

Mark 7:11

Romans 1:30

General references

Luke 10:32

Bible References

Lovers

cruel, enemies to virtue, traitors, insolent, conceited, and more devoted to pleasure than to piety:

I add, we that are better inform'd ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not study our own pleasure.

that they who are in a state of life should not live at their own discretion, but to the service of him who died for them, and rose again.

the most consult their private advantage, and neglect the dispensation of Jesus Christ.

If, agreeably to the scriptures, you observe that royal law, "thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self," you do well.

Covetous

then he said to them, take care to be clear of all avarice: for the enjoyment of life does not depend upon the having large possessions.

they were full of all injustice, fornication, mischief, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, contention, fraud, malignity;

Mortify therefore your sensual appetites, fornication, impurity, irregular passions, wicked desires, and that licentiousness practised by idolaters.

By their artful discourses they will make you the tools of their avarice; but their condemnation has been a long time advancing, and their ruin is far from lingring.

unhappy creatures! they have followed the practices of Cain, they have addicted themselves to the mercenary illusions of Balaam, and perish in their rebellion like Core.

their gold, and silver, precious stones, and pearls, fine linnen, and purple, their silk, scarlet, and all sort of citron wood, their various vessels of ivory, and of precious wood, of brass, iron, and marble:

Boasters

for some time ago one Theudas started up, pretending to be something extraordinary, who was join'd indeed by about four hundred men: but he was no sooner put to death, than his followers all dispers'd, and were reduc'd to nothing.

they were full of all injustice, fornication, mischief, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, contention, fraud, malignity;

don't triumph over the branches: or if you do, remember the root is not dependent upon you, but you upon the root.

that adversary that exalts it self above the divine authority of majesty: that is seated in the temple of God, pretending to be it self divine.

you triumph in your vain projects, but your presumption is vicious.

when their language swells with vanity, by applying to the sensual passions of the licentious, they allure those who were escap'd for a while, from such deceivers:

These are murmurers, complainers, who pursue their own passions: their language swells with flattery, which they offer to the personages of men from a prospect of gain.

Proud

he is full of pride and ignorance, touch'd with a spirit of chicanery and wrangling, productive of envy, contention, calumny,

on the contrary, he heaps his favours upon you. wherefore 'tis said, "God defeats the proud, but is gracious to the humble."

As for you that are young, be you submissive to those of a more advanc'd age: and do you all of you pay a becoming deference to one another: be cloak'd with humility, for " God opposes the proud, and shows favour to the humble."

Blasphemers

Hymeneus and Alexander are of that number, whom I have deliver'd to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

But as for these, they have no more reason than brute beasts that are naturally made for hunting, and slaughter: so these who calumniate what they do not understand, shall receive the reward of their iniquity by perishing in their own corruption.

As for these, they inveigh against what they do not understand: and abuse those natural instincts which regulate brute animals.

Then I saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads, and ten horns; upon his horns were ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

and men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, who hath power over these plagues: and they repented not, to give him glory.

Disobedient

thus have ye disannull'd the commandment of God by your tradition.

but your doctrine is this, if any one shall tell his father or his mother, that what he could bestow for their relief, is corban, that is, to be given to the temple;

whisperers, backbiters, enemies of God, injurious, proud, vain, inventers of vices, disobedient to parents, void of judgment,

General references

a Levite too came to the same place, gave him a look, and pass'd on.