2 Timothy 3:4

4 traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions, lovers of pleasure rather 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 men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, evil speakers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, profane,

3 without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good,

4 traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

5 having a form of piety but denying the power of it: and from these turn away.

6 For of these are they who are getting into houses, and leading captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts,