2 Timothy 3:2

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2 Timothy 3:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Lovers

James 2:8

Covetous

Jude 1:11

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

They will hate goodness, they will be treacherous, reckless, blinded with pride, lovers of pleasure, rather than lovers of God.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to seek our own pleasure.

and that he died for all in order that the living may live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again for them.

for they are all seeking their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.

If you are keeping the royal law, which says, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself, you are doing well.

Covetous

And to the people he said, "Take heed and guard yourselves from all covetousness, for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of the things which he possesses."

They were overflowing with every kind of iniquity, depravity, greed, and malice. They were full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and malignity.

So slay your baser inclinations. fornication, impurity, appetite, unnatural desires, and the greed which is idolatry.

In their covetousness, with cunning words, they will make merchandise of you; those whose doom has not been idle from of old, and whose destruction has not been slumbering.

Alas for them! They have walked in the path of Cain; for the sake of gain they have rushed headlong into Balaam's error, and have perished in Koran's rebellion.

Boasters

"Years ago Theudas arose, claiming to be somebody, and was joined by about four hundred men. He was killed, and all of his followers dispersed and annihilated.

They were overflowing with every kind of iniquity, depravity, greed, and malice. They were full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and malignity.

or if you are glorying, remember that it is not you who uphold the root, but the root which upholds you.

the adversary, who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God, or is an object of worship; so that he takes his seat in the Temple of God, and vaunts himself as God.

But now you are glorying in these insolent boastings of yours; all such glorying is evil.

For speaking great swelling words of vanity, they entangle, by their lasciviousness, in the lusts of the flesh, those who are just about to escape from the men that live in misconduct.

For these are murmurers, always complaining. They always go where their passions lead, and their mouth speaks great swelling words, while they pay court to men for the sake of the advantage they can get.

Proud

he is puffed up with conceit and knows nothing, but is doting about disputations and a strife of words. These give rise to envy, quarrels, railings, evil suspicions,

But he gives more and more grace. therefore it is said, God ever resists the proud; but to the humble he gives grace continually.

You younger men must submit to the presbyters; and all of you must put on the garment of humility and serve one another, for God resists the haughty, But gives grace to the humble.

Blasphemers

Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have given over to Satan, so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.

But these men, like irrational creatures, mere animals, born to be taken and destroyed, continually rail about matters of which they know nothing. In their corruption they will surely be destroyed,

Yet these men blaspheme about matters of which they know nothing, while they use such things as they do understand by instinct (like the animals who have no reason) for their own destruction.

Then I saw rising up out of the sea a beast who had ten horns and seven heads. On his horns he had ten diadems, and on his heads blasphemous titles.

And men were scorched with the terrible heat; and they blasphemed the name of the God who had the power over these plagues; yet they repented not, to give him glory.

Disobedient

is in no way bound to honor his father. Thus do you make void the word of God by your tradition!

you say that if a man tells his father or mother, 'This money which otherwise you would have received from me, is Korban' (that is, a thing devoted to God),

They became whisperers, back-biters, hated of God, insolent, haughty, boastful. They invented sins. They were disobedient to parents.

General references

"In like manner also a Levite who came to the spot, came and looked at him, and passed on the other side.