2 Timothy 3:4

4 traitors, rash, puffed up, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God,

2 Timothy 3:4 Meaning and Commentary

2 Timothy 3:4

Traitors
To their princes and sovereigns, whose deaths they have contrived and compassed, and whom they have assassinated and murdered; and have been betrayers of the secrets of persons, which they have come at by auricular confession to them; and of their best and nearest friends, to preserve and secure themselves.

Heady;
rash, daring, bold, and impudent, fit to say and do any thing, though ever so vile and wicked.

High, minded;
puffed and swelled up with a vain conceit of themselves, and speaking great swelling words of vanity;

lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God;
lovers of sinful pleasures, or the pleasures of sin, which are but for a season, and not God; serving divers lusts and pleasures, and not God; making a god of their belly; sensual idolaters, delighting themselves in their carnal lusts, and not in the service of God.

2 Timothy 3:4 In-Context

2 For there shall be men who are lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, evil speakers, disobedient to their parents, unthankful, impure,
3 without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, without temperance, without meekness, without goodness,
4 traitors, rash, puffed up, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God,
5 having the appearance of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are those who creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with various lusts,
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