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2 Timothy 3:2–3

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For 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,
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From verse 2

  1. Philippians 2:21Rank 1 from verse 2
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    21For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.

  2. Romans 1:29–31Rank 2 from verse 2
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    29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

    30Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

    31Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

  3. Jude 1:16Rank 3 from verse 2
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    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.

  4. Psalms 10:3Rank 4 from verse 2
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    3For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.

  5. 2 Timothy 3:4Rank 5 from verse 2
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    4Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

From verse 3

  1. Jude 1:18Rank 1 from verse 3
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    18How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

  2. Romans 1:31Rank 2 from verse 3
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    31Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

  3. Matthew 10:21Rank 3 from verse 3
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    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.

  4. 2 Peter 2:14Rank 4 from verse 3
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    14Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

  5. 1 Timothy 3:11Rank 5 from verse 3
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    11Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

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2 Timothy 3:2

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

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COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

lovers

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Sense 1: Persons who love, or close friends joined by affection. Sense 2: Persons joined in improper or unlawful affection.

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covetous

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Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess; directed to money or goods, avaricious.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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blasphemers

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Persons who speak evil, abusively, or contemptuously of another or of what is regarded as sacred.

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disobedient

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Refusing or failing to obey a command, word, authority, or duty; not compliant with what was required.

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2 Timothy 3:3

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without

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Outside or on the exterior; beyond a boundary; lacking, absent, free from, not accompanied by, or apart from the person, thing, condition, means, or relation named.

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natural

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Belonging to birth, bodily life, ordinary created nature, native relation, or instinct.

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false

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Not solid or sound; deceiving expectations. Not faithful or loyal; treacherous; perfidious; deceitful.

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good

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Sense 1: Right, morally upright, beneficial, pleasing, useful, suitable, sound, favourable, or excellent. Sense 2: A good thing, benefit, welfare, possession, or goods. Sense 3: In ‘make good,’ to repair, repay, fulfil, establish, or prove.

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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,

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3Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

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4Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

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