2 Timothy 3:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἔσονται γὰρ οἱ ἄνθρωποι φίλαυτοι, φιλάργυροι, ἀλαζόνες, ὑπερήφανοι, βλάσφημοι, γονεῦσιν ἀπειθεῖς, ἀχάριστοι, ἀνόσιοι,

Transliteration

Esontai gar the anthrōpoi philautoi, philargyroi, alazones, hyperēphanoi, blasphēmoi, to goneusin apeitheis, acharistoi, anosioi,

Grammar Details

• *esontai*: future middle indicative, 3rd person plural - will be
• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for/because
• *hoi*: definite article, nominative, masculine, plural - the
• *anthrōpoi*: noun, nominative, masculine, plural - men/people/mankind
• *philautoi*: adjective, nominative, masculine, plural - lovers of self
• *philargyroi*: adjective, nominative, masculine, plural - lovers of money
• *alazones*: noun, nominative, masculine, plural - boasters/braggarts
• *hyperēphanoi*: adjective, nominative, masculine, plural - arrogant/proud
• *blasphēmoi*: adjective, nominative, masculine, plural - blasphemers/slanderers
• *goneusin*: noun, dative, masculine, plural - parents
• *apeitheis*: adjective, nominative, masculine, plural - disobedient/unpersuadable
• *acharistoi*: adjective, nominative, masculine, plural - ungrateful/thankless
• *anosioi*: adjective, nominative, masculine, plural - unholy/profane

Word Meanings

• *philautoi*: self-lovers/selfish/self-centered
• *philargyroi*: money-lovers/greedy/avaricious
• *alazones*: boasters/pretenders/imposters/braggarts
• *hyperēphanoi*: proud/arrogant/haughty
• *blasphēmoi*: blasphemers/slanderers/abusive
• *apeitheis*: disobedient/unpersuadable/rebellious
• *acharistoi*: ungrateful/thankless
• *anosioi*: unholy/profane/irreverent

Referenced Verses

• Jude 1:16 : 16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaketh great swelling [words]), showing respect of persons for the sake of advantage.
• Ps 10:3 : 3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, And the covetous renounceth, [yea], contemneth Jehovah.
• Phil 2:21 : 21 For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
• 2 Pet 2:12 : 12 But these, as creatures without reason, born mere animals to be taken and destroyed, railing in matters whereof they are ignorant, shall in their destroying surely be destroyed,
• 2 Tim 3:4 : 4 traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
• Jas 4:16 : 16 But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.
• Luke 16:14 : 14 And the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things; and they scoffed at him.
• Ps 49:6 : 6 They that trust in their wealth, And boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
• Ps 52:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician. Maschil of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech. Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? The lovingkindness of God [endureth] continually.
• Prov 6:17 : 17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;
• Isa 10:15 : 15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? shall the saw magnify itself against him that wieldeth it? as if a rod should wield them that lift it up, [or] as if a staff should lift up [him that is] not wood.
• Dan 7:25 : 25 And he shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.
• Dan 11:36 : 36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods; and he shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished; for that which is determined shall be done.
• Acts 5:36 : 36 For before these days rose up Theudas, giving himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nought.
• Rom 1:29-31 : 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, {G4202} wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, {G786} unmerciful:
• Rom 11:18 : 18 glory not over the branches: but if thou gloriest, it is not thou that bearest the root, but the root thee.
• Rom 15:1-3 : 1 Now we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, unto edifying. 3 For Christ also pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me.
• 2 Cor 5:15 : 15 and he died for all, that they that live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again.
• Col 3:5 : 5 Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
• 2 Thess 2:4 : 4 he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he {G5613} {G2316} sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God.
• 1 Tim 1:20 : 20 of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered unto Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.
• 1 Tim 3:3 : 3 no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;
• 1 Tim 6:4 : 4 he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but doting about questionings and disputes of words, whereof {G1537} cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
• 1 Tim 6:10 : 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which {G3713} some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
• 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.
• 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.
• Rev 13:1 : 1 and he stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns, and seven heads, and on his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names of blasphemy.
• Rev 13:5-6 : 5 and there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and there was given to him authority to continue forty and two months. 6 And he opened his mouth for blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, [even] them that dwell in the heaven.
• Rev 16:9 : 9 And men were scorched with great heat: and they blasphemed the name of God who hath the power over these plagues; and they repented not to give him glory.
• Rev 16:11 : 11 and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores; and they repented not of their works.
• Rev 16:21 : 21 And great hail, [every stone] about the weight of a talent, cometh down out of heaven upon men: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof is exceeding great.
• Rev 18:12-13 : 12 merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stone, and pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet; and all thyine wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble; 13 and cinnamon, and spice, and incense, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep; and merchandise of horses and chariots and slaves; and souls of men.
• Jas 2:8 : 8 Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:
• Jas 4:6 : 6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore [the scripture] saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.
• Mark 7:11-12 : 11 but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given [to God]; 12 ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother;
• Luke 12:15 : 15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and keep yourselves from all covetousness: for a man's {G846} life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
• 2 Pet 2:14-15 : 14 having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of cursing; 15 forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the [son] of Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing;
• 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For, uttering great swelling [words] of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;
• Jude 1:10-11 : 10 But these rail at whatsoever things they know not: and what they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, in these things are they destroyed. 11 Woe unto them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.
• Matt 15:6 : 6 he shall not honor his father. And ye have made void the word of God because of your tradition.