2 Timothy 3:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But evil men and impostors shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Πονηροὶ δὲ ἄνθρωποι καὶ γόητες προκόψουσιν ἐπὶ τὸ χεῖρον, πλανῶντες, καὶ πλανώμενοι.

Transliteration

Ponēroi de anthrōpoi kai goētes prokopsousin epi the cheiron, planōntes, kai planōmenoi.

Grammar Details

• *ponēroi*: adjective, nominative, masculine, plural - evil/wicked
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
• *anthrōpoi*: noun, nominative, masculine, plural - men/people
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *goētes*: noun, nominative, masculine, plural - impostors/deceivers
• *prokopsousin*: future active indicative, 3rd person plural - will advance/progress
• *epi*: preposition with accusative - upon/to
• *to*: definite article, accusative, neuter, singular - the
• *cheiron*: adjective, accusative, neuter, singular, comparative - worse
• *planōntes*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - deceiving
• *planōmenoi*: present passive participle, nominative, masculine, plural - being deceived

Word Meanings

• *ponēroi*: evil/wicked/malicious/bad
• *goētes*: impostors/deceivers/swindlers/magicians
• *prokopsousin*: will advance/will progress/will proceed further
• *epi to cheiron*: to the worse/to a worse state
• *planōntes*: deceiving/misleading/leading astray
• *planōmenoi*: being deceived/being misled/being led astray

Referenced Verses

• Titus 3:3 : 3 For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
• 2 Pet 2:20 : 20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.
• Ezek 14:9-9 : 9 And if the prophet be deceived and speak a word, I, Jehovah, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. 10 And they shall bear their iniquity: the iniquity of the prophet shall be even as the iniquity of him that seeketh [unto him];
• 1 Tim 4:1 : 1 But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
• 2 Tim 3:8 : 8 And even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also withstand the truth. Men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.
• 2 Tim 2:16-17 : 16 But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness, 17 and their word will eat as doth a gangrene: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
• 2 Thess 2:6-9 : 6 And now ye know that which restraineth, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work: only [there is] one that restraineth now, until he be taken out of the way. 8 And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of his coming; 9 [None even he], whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie:
• Job 12:16 : 16 With him is strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his.
• Isa 44:20 : 20 He feedeth on ashes; a deceived heart hath turned him aside; and he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
• 2 Pet 3:3 : 3 knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,
• Rev 12:9 : 9 And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.
• Rev 13:14 : 14 And he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by reason of the signs which it was given him to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who hath the stroke of the sword and lived.
• Rev 18:23 : 23 and the light of a lamp shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the princes of the earth; for with thy sorcery were all the nations deceived.