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2 Timothy 3:2–4

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

  6. 2 Peter 2:14–15Rank 6 from verse 2
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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:

    15Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

  7. 1 Timothy 6:10Rank 7 from verse 2
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    10For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

  8. 2 Peter 2:18Rank 8 from verse 2
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    18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

  9. Colossians 3:5Rank 9 from verse 2
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    5Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

  10. James 4:6Rank 10 from verse 2
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    6But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

  11. 1 Peter 5:5Rank 11 from verse 2
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    5Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

  12. 1 Timothy 6:4Rank 12 from verse 2
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    4He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

  13. Daniel 11:36Rank 13 from verse 2
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    36And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.

  14. Luke 12:15Rank 14 from verse 2
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    15And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

  15. 2 Peter 2:12Rank 15 from verse 2
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    12But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

  16. 2 Peter 2:3Rank 16 from verse 2
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    3And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

  17. Revelation 16:11Rank 17 from verse 2
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    11And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

  18. 2 Thessalonians 2:4Rank 18 from verse 2
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    4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

  19. Daniel 7:25Rank 19 from verse 2
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    25And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

  20. James 4:16Rank 20 from verse 2
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    16But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

  21. Romans 11:18Rank 21 from verse 2
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    18Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

  22. 1 Timothy 1:20Rank 22 from verse 2
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    20Of whom is Hymenæus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

  23. 1 Timothy 3:3Rank 23 from verse 2
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    3Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

  24. Acts 5:36Rank 24 from verse 2
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    36For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought.

  25. James 2:8Rank 25 from verse 2
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    8If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

  26. Luke 16:14Rank 26 from verse 2
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    14And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.

  27. Revelation 16:21Rank 27 from verse 2
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    21And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

  28. Revelation 18:12–13Rank 28 from verse 2
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    12The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,

    13And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.

  29. Romans 15:1–3Rank 29 from verse 2
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    1WE then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

    2Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.

    3For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.

  30. 2 Corinthians 5:15Rank 30 from verse 2
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    15And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

  31. Isaiah 10:15Rank 31 from verse 2
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    15Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.

  32. Jude 1:10–11Rank 32 from verse 2
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    10But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

    11Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

  33. Mark 7:11–12Rank 33 from verse 2
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    11But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.

    12And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;

  34. Matthew 15:6Rank 34 from verse 2
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    6And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.

  35. Proverbs 6:17Rank 35 from verse 2
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    17A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

  36. Psalms 49:6Rank 36 from verse 2
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    6They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

  37. Revelation 13:1Rank 37 from verse 2
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    1AND I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

  38. Revelation 13:5–6Rank 38 from verse 2
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    5And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

    6And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

  39. Revelation 16:9Rank 39 from verse 2
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    9And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

  40. Psalms 52:1Rank 40 from verse 2
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    1WHY boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.

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.

  6. Daniel 8:23Rank 6 from verse 3
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    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.

  7. Matthew 4:1Rank 7 from verse 3
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    1THEN was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

  8. Luke 10:16Rank 8 from verse 3
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    16He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.

  9. 1 Corinthians 7:5Rank 9 from verse 3
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    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.

  10. 1 Corinthians 7:9Rank 10 from verse 3
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    9But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

  11. 1 Thessalonians 4:8Rank 11 from verse 3
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    8He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

  12. 2 Peter 3:3Rank 12 from verse 3
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    3Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

  13. 2 Samuel 21:1–3Rank 13 from verse 3
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    1THEN there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.

    2And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)

    3Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the Lord?

  14. Ezekiel 17:15–19Rank 14 from verse 3
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    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?

    16As I live, saith the Lord God, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.

    17Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:

    18Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.

    19Therefore thus saith the Lord God; As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.

  15. Genesis 49:7Rank 15 from verse 3
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    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.

  16. Isaiah 53:3Rank 16 from verse 3
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    3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

  17. Isaiah 60:14Rank 17 from verse 3
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    14The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

  18. James 2:6Rank 18 from verse 3
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    6But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

  19. John 6:70Rank 19 from verse 3
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    70Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?

  20. Jude 1:16Rank 20 from verse 3
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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.

  21. Luke 16:14Rank 21 from verse 3
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    14And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.

  22. Psalms 22:6Rank 22 from verse 3
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    6But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

  23. Revelation 13:15Rank 23 from verse 3
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    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.

  24. Revelation 13:17Rank 24 from verse 3
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    17And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

  25. Revelation 16:6Rank 25 from verse 3
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    6For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

  26. Revelation 17:6Rank 26 from verse 3
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    6And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

  27. Titus 1:8Rank 27 from verse 3
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    8But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

  28. Titus 2:3Rank 28 from verse 3
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    3The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

  29. 2 Peter 2:19Rank 29 from verse 3
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    19While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

  30. Psalms 15:4Rank 30 from verse 3
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    4In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.

From verse 4

  1. 1 Timothy 3:6Rank 1 from verse 4
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    6Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

  2. Jude 1:4Rank 2 from verse 4
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    4For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

  3. Philippians 3:18–19Rank 3 from verse 4
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    18(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

    19Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

  4. 2 Peter 2:10–22Rank 4 from verse 4
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    10But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

    11Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.

    12But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

    13And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

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

    15Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

    16But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

    17These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

    18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

    19While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

    20For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

    21For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

    22But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

  5. Jude 1:8–9Rank 5 from verse 4
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    8Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

    9Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

  6. Jude 1:19Rank 6 from verse 4
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    19These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.

  7. Romans 16:18Rank 7 from verse 4
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    18For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

  8. 1 Timothy 5:6Rank 8 from verse 4
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    6But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.

  9. 1 Timothy 6:17Rank 9 from verse 4
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    17Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

  10. Romans 11:20Rank 10 from verse 4
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    20Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:

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2 Timothy 3:2

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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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shall

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

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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.

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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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2 Timothy 3:4

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traitors

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Persons who betray trust, allegiance, companions, authority, or a cause to which they owe faithfulness.

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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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pleasures

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Sense 1: Delights, enjoyments, or gratifications. Sense 2: Sensual or self-indulgent desires.

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3:1THIS know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

3:2For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

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

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3:4Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

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3:5Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

3:6For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

3:7Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

3:8Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

3:9But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.

3:10But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,

3:11Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.

3:12Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

3:13But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

3:14But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;

3:15And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

3:16All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

3:17That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

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