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2 Timothy 3:3

Listen to 2 Timothy 3:3
3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,

2 Timothy 3:3 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
English Standard Version (ESV)
3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,
New Living Translation (NLT)
3 They will be unloving and unforgiving; they will slander others and have no self-control. They will be cruel and hate what is good.
The Message Bible (MSG)
3 dog-eat-dog, unbending, slanderers, impulsively wild, savage, cynical,
American Standard Version (ASV)
3 without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
3 and lack normal affection for their families. They will refuse to make peace with anyone. They will be slanderous, lack self-control, be brutal, and have no love for what is good.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
3 unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
3 They won't love others. They won't forgive others. They will tell lies about people. They will be out of control. They will be wild. They will hate what is good.

2 Timothy 3:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Timothy 3:3

Without natural affection
To parents, or children, or wife; parents thrusting their children into religious houses, cloisters against their wills; children leaving their parents without their knowledge or consent; married bishops and priests being obliged to quit their wives, and declare their children spurious; with many other such unnatural actions.

Trucebreakers;
or covenant breakers; stirring up princes to break through their treaties and covenants with one another; dissolving the allegiance of subjects to their sovereigns, and moving them to rebellion against them; loosing the marriage bond between husband and wife; making void all oaths, contracts, and agreements, among men, which stand in the way of their designs; teaching that no faith is to be kept with heretics.

False accusers;
or devils, being like Satan, the accuser of the brethren, charging all that depart from their communion with schism and heresy.

Incontinent;
though they pretend to the gift of continency, yet give themselves up to all lasciviousness, and work all uncleanness with greediness; or "intemperate" in eating and drinking, indulging themselves in rioting and drunkenness: "she hath lived deliciously", ( Revelation 18:7 ) .

Fierce;
like beasts of prey; such was Rome Pagan, in the times of the ten persecutions; and such has been Rome Papal, exercising the greatest cruelties and barbarities on the saints, being drunk with their blood.

Despisers of those that are good;
or without love to good; both to good works, to which they are reprobate, notwithstanding all their pretensions to them, and bluster about them; and to good men, whom they hate.

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2 Timothy 3:3 In-Context

1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.
2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—
5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.
Scripture quoted by permission.  Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®.  NIV®.  Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica.  All rights reserved worldwide.

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