2 Timothy 3:3

2 Timothy 3:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
• New International Version (NIV)without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
• English Standard Version (ESV)heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,
• New King James Version (NKJV)unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,

Context of 2 Timothy 3:3

1This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

2 Timothy 3:3 word by word

ἄστοργοι, ἄσπονδοι, διάβολοι, ἀκρατεῖς, ἀνήμεροι, ἀφιλάγαθοι,Read the interlinear

• Without natural affectionἄστοργοςastorgos · unfeelingG794
• trucebreakersἄσπονδοςaspondos · irreconcilableG786
• false accusersδιάβολοςdiabolos · devilish/the DevilG1228
• incontinentἀκρατήςakratēs · intemperateG193
• fierceἀνήμεροςanēmeros · brutalG434
• despisers of those that are goodἀφιλάγαθοςaphilagathos · hating goodG865

Cross-references for 2 Timothy 3:3

• Matthew 10:21And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
• Romans 1:31Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
• 2 Samuel 21:1Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of Yhwh. And Yhwh answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
• Psalms 15:4In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear Yhwh. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
• Ezekiel 17:15But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?
• Matthew 4:1Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
• John 6:70Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?
• 1 Timothy 3:11Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
• 1 Corinthians 7:5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
• 2 Peter 2:14Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
• 2 Peter 3:3Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
• Jude 1:16These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
• Genesis 49:7Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
• Daniel 8:23And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
• Revelation 13:15And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
• Revelation 16:6For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

Commentaries on 2 Timothy 3:3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Without natural affection - · Without that affection which parents bear to their young, and which the young bear to their parents. An affection which is common to every class of animals; consequently, men without it are worse than brutes. Truce-breakers - · From , negative, and , a libation, because in making treaties libations both of blood and wine were poured out. The word means those who are bound by no promise, held by no engagement, obliged by no…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Without natural affection - see the notes at Romans 1:31. Trucebreakers - The same word in Romans 1:31, is rendered “implacable;” see the notes at that verse. It properly means “without treaty;” that is, those who are averse to any treaty or compact. It may thus refer to those who are unwilling to enter into any agreement; that is, either those who are unwilling to be reconciled to others when there is a variance - implacable; or those who disregard…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-5Paul explains how people will behave in the last days, which had already started (see also 1 Timothy 4:1–5; 2 Peter 2:1–22; 3:3; Jude 1:18; 2 Timothy 3:5, 6–9).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. truce-breakers--rather as the Greek is translated in Ro 1:31, "implacable." false accusers--slanderers (1Ti 3:11; Tit 2:3). incontinent, fierce--at once both soft and hard: incontinently indulging themselves, and inhuman to others. despisers, &c.--"no lovers of good" [Alford]; the opposite of "a lover of good" (Tit 1:8).Read the comment

Topics related to 2 Timothy 3:3

• Accusation, False
• Affections
• Apostasy
• Character
• Citizens
• Commandments
• Fellowship
• Formalism
• Minister, Christian
• Persecution
• Selfishness
• Wicked (People)
• Worldliness

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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