2 Timothy 3:13

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

But evil men and seducers 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

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Referenced Verses

Titus 3:3 : 3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
2 Pet 2:20 : 20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
Ezek 14:9-9 : 9 And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD 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 the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto him;
1 Tim 4:1 : 1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Tim 3:8 : 8 {G3739} Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
2 Tim 2:16-17 : 16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. 17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
2 Thess 2:6-9 : 6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, 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, that 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 there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
Rev 12:9 : 9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Rev 13:14 : 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power 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, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
Rev 18:23 : 23 And the light of a candle 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 great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

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