2 Timothy 3:13

2 Timothy 3:13 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
• New International Version (NIV)while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
• English Standard Version (ESV)while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
• New King James Version (NKJV)But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Context of 2 Timothy 3:13

11You also know what happened to me in the cities called Antioch, Iconium and Lystra. People caused me to have a lot of trouble and pain in those places. But I was patient and brave in those bad troubles! And the Lord kept me safe in all those dangerous times. 12It is not only me. Every Christian who wants to live in a way that pleases God will have trouble from other people. Bad people like that will become even worse. Some of them will teach a false message and people will believe their lies. Those false teachers even believe their own lies! 14But you must continue to believe the things that you have learned. You know that those things are true. You know the teachers who taught you those things. 15Even when you were a child, you already knew the message of the Bible. The Bible has taught you how you can be truly wise. You understand that God saves you because you believe in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 3:13 word by word

πονηροὶ δὲ ἄνθρωποι καὶ γόητες προκόψουσιν ἐπὶ τὸ χεῖρον πλανῶντες καὶ πλανώμενοι.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• ·ἐπίepi · upon/to/againstG1909
• Butδέde · thenG1161
• evilπονηρόςponēros · evil/badG4190
• menἄνθρωποςanthrōpos · a humanG444
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• seducersγόηςgoēs · imposterG1114
• shall waxπροκόπτωprokoptō · to advanceG4298
• worse and worseχείρωνcheirōn · worse thanG5501
• deceivingπλανάωplanaō · to lead astrayG4105

Cross-references for 2 Timothy 3:13

• 2 Timothy 3:8These are people who speak against God's true message, in the same way that Jannes and Jambres spoke against Moses. Their minds have become confused. The way that they serve God is false.
• 2 Timothy 2:16But stay away from people who talk about silly things that are not important to God. A message like that causes people to live more and more in a way that does not please God.
• 2 Thessalonians 2:6Something makes it impossible for this man to come now. And you know what it is. But this man will appear at the proper time.
• 1 Timothy 4:1God's Spirit tells us clearly that, in later times, some people will stop believing the message about Jesus Christ. Instead, they will listen to bad spirits who want people to believe wrong things. They will listen to the message that comes from demons.
• 2 Peter 2:20People like that learned about our Lord Jesus Christ, who saves us. As a result, they had stopped doing the bad things that belong to this world. They had become free from the power of those things. But now they have started to do those bad things again. Those things have power over them and they cannot stop doing them. So now, these false teachers are worse than they were at the beginning, before they believed in the Lord Jesus.
• 2 Peter 3:3The first thing that you should understand is this. In the last days of this world, some people will laugh at you because you believe in God. These people will do whatever bad things they want to do.
• Revelation 12:9Michael and his angels threw the great dragon out of heaven. The dragon is called the Devil or Satan. He is the snake who has been there since long ago. He tells lies to deceive the whole world. They threw him down to the earth, together with all his angels.
• Revelation 13:14It used the authority of the first wild animal to do many miracles. In that way, it deceived the people who lived on the earth. It told them to make an image of the first wild animal. This was the animal that was still alive after a sword had given it a bad wound.
• Revelation 18:23No light from people's lamps will ever shine in the city again. Nobody will ever hear the happy voices of a man and a woman when they marry. Your traders were the most powerful people on the earth. You used your magic to deceive people from all nations.
• Job 12:16God has strength and wisdom. He has power over people who tell lies, and the people that they deceive.
• Isaiah 44:20Someone like that is stupid enough to eat ashes. His mind has deceived him. He cannot save himself from his lies. He will not say to himself, ‘This thing that I hold in my right hand is completely false!’
• Ezekiel 14:9I will also punish the prophet himself if he gives a false message. I, the Lord, have deceived him to show that he is a fool. And I will punish him. I will remove him from among my people, Israel's people.
• 2 Thessalonians 2:11For this reason, God causes their minds to accept something that is wrong. They believe a false message.

Commentaries on 2 Timothy 3:13

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13Evil men and seducers shall wax worse - They will yet get on for a season, deceiving themselves and deceiving others; but, by and by, their folly will become manifest to all, 2 Timothy 3:9. The word , which we render seducers, signifies jugglers, pretenders to magical arts; probably persons dealing in false miracles, with whom the Church in all ages has been not a little disgraced.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse - That is, it is the character of such men to do this; they may be expected to do it. This is the general law of depravity - that if men are not converted, they are always growing worse, and sinking deeper into iniquity. Their progress will be certain, though it may be gradual, since “nemo repente turpissimus.” The connection here is this: that Timothy was not to expect that he would be exempt from…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-13Verses 10-13 The more fully we know the doctrine of Christ, as taught by the apostles, the more closely we shall cleave to it. When we know the afflictions of believers only in part, they tempt us to decline the cause for which they suffer. A form of godliness, a profession of Christian faith without a godly life, often is allowed to pass, while open profession of the truth as it is in Jesus, and resolute attention to the duties of godliness, stir up the…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-17Timothy must remain focused during the difficult times ahead.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. Reason why persecutions must be expected, and these becoming worse and worse as the end approaches. The breach between light and darkness, so far from being healed, shall be widened [Alford]. evil men--in contrast to the "godly" (2Ti 3:12). seducers--literally, "conjurers." Magical arts prevailed at Ephesus (Ac 19:19), and had been renounced by many Ephesians on embracing Christianity: but now when Paul was writing to Ephesus, symptoms of a return to…Read the comment

Topics related to 2 Timothy 3:13

• Deceit
• Doctrines
• Hypocrisy
• Minister, Christian
• Seduction
• Sin
• Temptation
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Correction
• Creep
• Divination
• Doctrine
• Godly
• Inspiration
• Reprobate
• Unholy
• Wise
• Worse

Commentaries on 2 Timothy 3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings