Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

Having

Bible References

The time

2 Timothy 3:1
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress.
1 Timothy 4:1
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith by giving heed to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,

They will

Luke 20:19
The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the peoplefor they knew that he had spoken this parable against them.
John 8:45
But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.
Galatians 4:16
Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

But

2 Timothy 3:6
For among them are those who make their way into households and capture weak women, weighed down with sins and swayed by various impulses,
Luke 6:26
Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
John 3:19
And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
2 Peter 2:1
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.

Having

Acts 17:21
(Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time in nothing other than telling or hearing something new.)

General references

John 8:45
But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.
John 10:5
A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers."
1 Corinthians 14:38
But if anyone does not recognize this, he is not recognized.