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2 Timothy 3:4–6

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Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
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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:

From verse 5

  1. Isaiah 29:13Rank 1 from verse 5
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    13¶ Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

  2. Titus 1:16Rank 2 from verse 5
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    16They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

  3. Matthew 23:27–28Rank 3 from verse 5
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    27Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

    28Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

  4. 1 Timothy 5:8Rank 4 from verse 5
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    8But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

  5. Romans 2:20–24Rank 5 from verse 5
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    20An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

    21Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

    22Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

    23Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?

    24For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

  6. Matthew 7:15Rank 6 from verse 5
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    15¶ Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

  7. Titus 3:10Rank 7 from verse 5
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    10A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;

  8. Ezekiel 33:30–32Rank 8 from verse 5
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    30¶ Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the Lord.

    31And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.

    32And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.

  9. 2 John 1:10–12Rank 9 from verse 5
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    10If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:

    11For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

    12Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.

  10. 2 Timothy 2:16Rank 10 from verse 5
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    16But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

  11. Romans 16:17–18Rank 11 from verse 5
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    17Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

    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.

  12. 2 Timothy 2:23Rank 12 from verse 5
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    23But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.

  13. Isaiah 58:1–3Rank 13 from verse 5
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    1CRY aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

    2Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.

    3¶ Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.

  14. 1 Timothy 6:5Rank 14 from verse 5
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    5Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

  15. Ephesians 4:14Rank 15 from verse 5
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    14That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

  16. 2 Thessalonians 3:6Rank 16 from verse 5
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    6Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

  17. Isaiah 48:1–2Rank 17 from verse 5
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    1HEAR ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.

    2For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The Lord of hosts is his name.

  18. 2 Thessalonians 3:14Rank 18 from verse 5
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    14And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.

From verse 6

  1. Jude 1:4Rank 1 from verse 6
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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.

  2. 2 Peter 3:17Rank 2 from verse 6
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    17Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

  3. Titus 3:3Rank 3 from verse 6
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    3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

  4. Jude 1:18Rank 4 from verse 6
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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.

  5. Titus 1:11Rank 5 from verse 6
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    11Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.

  6. Mark 4:19Rank 6 from verse 6
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    19And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

  7. 1 Corinthians 12:2Rank 7 from verse 6
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    2Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.

  8. 2 Peter 2:18Rank 8 from verse 6
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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. Jude 1:16Rank 9 from verse 6
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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.

  10. Matthew 23:13Rank 10 from verse 6
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    13¶ But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

  11. 1 Timothy 6:9Rank 11 from verse 6
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    9But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

  12. Isaiah 1:4Rank 12 from verse 6
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    4Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

  13. Matthew 11:28Rank 13 from verse 6
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    28¶ Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

  14. Psalms 38:4Rank 14 from verse 6
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    4For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

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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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2 Timothy 3:5

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but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

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denying

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Present-participial or verbal-noun form of deny, meaning to refuse, disown, contradict, renounce, or declare not to be true.

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power

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Sense 1: Ability, strength, force, or effective capacity to act, prevail, or produce an effect. Sense 2: Authority, right, permission, rule, dominion, or control. Sense 3: A person, authority, host, spiritual being, or other agent possessing or manifesting power.

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

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turn

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Sense 1: To change direction, position, condition, purpose, or allegiance; to cause such a change. Sense 2: One’s time or occasion in an order or succession.

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2 Timothy 3:6

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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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which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

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creep

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To move with the belly on the ground, or the surface of any other body, as a worm or serpent without legs, or as many insects with feet and very short legs; to crawl.

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

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houses

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Buildings or dwelling places; by extension, the families, households, estates, possessions, royal lines, or bodies of people associated with them.

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lead

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Sense 1: A soft, heavy metal. Sense 2: As a verb, to guide, conduct, or go before.

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laden

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Loaded, burdened, weighed down, or carrying a heavy load.

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

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sins

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Transgressions or offences against God and his law, and the guilt for them.

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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,

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

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.

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

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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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