2 Timothy 3:4

4 traitors, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving 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 people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

3 hardhearted, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, with no interest for what is good,

4 traitors, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God,

5 maintaining a form of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid these [people].

6 For from these are those who slip into houses and captivate foolish women loaded down with sins, led by various kinds of desires,