2 Timothy 4:3

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;

The time

2 Timothy 3:1

1 Timothy 4:1

They will

Luke 20:19

John 8:45

Galatians 4:16

But

Having

Acts 17:21

General references

John 8:45

John 10:5

1 Corinthians 14:38

Bible References

The time

Be sure of this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

But the Spirit distinctly says that in later times there will be some who will fall away from the Faith, and devote their attention to misleading spirits, and to the teaching of demons,

They will

After this the Teachers of the Law and the Chief Priest were eager to lay hands on Jesus then and there, but they were afraid of the people; for they saw that it was at them that he had aimed this parable.

But, as for me, it is because I speak the truth to you that you do not believe me.

Am I to think, then, that I have become your enemy by telling you the truth?

But

For among them are to be found those who creep into homes and captivate weak women--women who, loaded with sins, and slaves to all kinds of passions,

Alas for you when all men speak well of you; for this is what their ancestors did to the false Prophets.

The ground of his condemnation is this, that though the Light has come into the world, men preferred the darkness to the Light, because their actions were wicked.

But there were false prophets also in the nation, just as there will be false teachers among you, men who will secretly introduce ruinous divisions, disowning even the Lord who bought them, and bringing speedy Ruin upon themselves.

Having

(All Athenians and the foreigners staying in the city found no time for anything else but telling, or listening to, the last new thing.)

General references

But, as for me, it is because I speak the truth to you that you do not believe me.

They will not follow a stranger, but will run away from him; because they do not know a stranger's voice."

Any one who ignores it may be ignored.