2 Timothy 3:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

Resist

Men

Reprobate

2 Corinthians 13:5

Bible References

Resist

for he has been bitterly hostile to anything I have said.

But the sorcerer Elymas (for that is the translation of his name) tried to divert the proconsul from the faith.

Having learned that some of our number, quite unauthorized by us, have unsettled you with their teaching and upset your souls,

It simply means that certain individuals are unsettling you; they want to distort the gospel of Christ.

There were traitors of false brothers, who had crept in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus; they did aim at enslaving us again.

For there are plenty of insubordinate creatures who impose on people with their empty arguments, particularly those who have come over from Judaism;

Still, false prophets did appear among the People, as among you also there will be false teachers, men who will insinuate destructive heresies, even disowning the Lord who ransomed them; they bring rapid destruction on themselves,

Children, it is the last hour. You have learned that 'Antichrist is coming.' Well, but many antichrists have appeared ??which makes us sure it is the last hour.

Do not believe every spirit, beloved, but test the spirits to see if they come from God; for many false prophets have emerged in the world.

Still, you have this in your favour: you hate the practices of the Nicolaitans, and I hate them too.

Men

You come in for no share or lot in this religion. Your heart is all wrong in the sight of God.

Yes, as they disdained to acknowledge God any longer, God has given them up to a reprobate instinct, for the perpetration of what is improper,

Such creatures are no servants of Christ our Lord, they are slaves of their own base desires; with their plausible and pious talk they beguile the hearts of unsuspecting people. But surely not of you!

'Apostles'? They are spurious apostles, false workmen ??they are masquerading as 'apostles of Christ.'

keeping hold of faith and a good conscience. Certain individuals have scouted the good conscience and thus come to grief over their faith ??20 including Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have made over to Satan. That will teach them to stop their blasphemous ongoings!

through plausible sophists who are seared in conscience ??3 men who prohibit marriage and insist on abstinence from foods which God created for believing men, who understand the Truth, to partake of with thanksgiving.

and constant friction between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the Truth. They imagine religion is a paying concern.

They profess to know God, but they deny him by their deeds; they are detestable, disobedient, and useless for good work of any kind.

they told you beforehand, "At the end of things there will be mockers who go by their own impious passions."

Reprobate

Put yourselves to the proof, not me; test yourselves, to see if you are in the faith. Do you not understand that Christ Jesus is within you? Otherwise you must be failures.