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

Now you must know that in the last days there are going to be hard times.

Now the Spirit distinctly declares that in later times some will turn away from the faith, because they continuously give their attention to deceiving spirits and the things that demons teach

They will

Then the scribes and the high priests tried to arrest Him at that very hour, but they were afraid of the people, for they knew that He meant this story for them.

But because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me.

Have I then turned into an enemy to you, because I tell you the truth?

But

For some of them practice going into people's houses and capturing weak and silly women who are overwhelmed with the weight of their sins, who are easily led about by all sorts of evil impulses,

A curse on you when everyone speaks well of you, for this is the way their forefathers used to treat the false prophets.

And the ground for the sentence is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were evil, men have loved darkness more than the light.

Now there were false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you too, who will insidiously introduce destructive heresies and deny the Master who has bought them, thus bringing on themselves swift destruction.

Having

(Now all the Athenians and foreign visitors in Athens used to spend their time in nothing else than telling or listening to the latest new thing out.)

General references

But because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me.

But they will never come on behind a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

If anyone ignores it, let him ignore it.