2 Timothy 3:4

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treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God.

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  • Phil 3:18-19 : 18 For many live, about whom I have often told you, and now, with tears, I tell you that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ. 19 Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.
  • 1 Tim 3:6 : 6 He must not be a recent convert or he may become arrogant and fall into the punishment that the devil will exact.
  • 1 Tim 5:6 : 6 But the one who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.
  • 1 Tim 6:17 : 17 Command those who are rich in this world’s goods not to be haughty or to set their hope on riches, which are uncertain, but on God who richly provides us with all things for our enjoyment.
  • 2 Pet 2:10-22 : 10 especially those who indulge their fleshly desires and who despise authority. Brazen and insolent, they are not afraid to insult the glorious ones, 11 yet even angels, who are much more powerful, do not bring a slanderous judgment against them before the Lord. 12 But these men, like irrational animals– creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed– do not understand whom they are insulting, and consequently in their destruction they will be destroyed, 13 suffering harm as the wages for their harmful ways. By considering it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight, they are stains and blemishes, indulging in their deceitful pleasures when they feast together with you. 14 Their eyes, full of adultery, never stop sinning; they entice unstable people. They have trained their hearts for greed, these cursed children! 15 By forsaking the right path they have gone astray, because they followed the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness, 16 yet was rebuked for his own transgression(a dumb donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet’s madness). 17 These men are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm, for whom the utter depths of darkness have been reserved. 18 For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error. 19 Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved. 20 For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first. 21 For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them. 22 They are illustrations of this true proverb:“A dog returns to its own vomit,” and“A sow, after washing herself, wallows in the mire.”
  • Jude 1:4 : 4 For certain men have secretly slipped in among you– men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe– ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
  • Jude 1:8-9 : 8 Yet these men, as a result of their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and insult the glorious ones. 9 But even when Michael the archangel was arguing with the devil and debating with him concerning Moses’ body, he did not dare to bring a slanderous judgment, but said,“May the Lord rebuke you!”
  • Jude 1:19 : 19 These people are divisive, worldly, devoid of the Spirit.
  • Rom 11:20 : 20 Granted! They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear!
  • Rom 16:18 : 18 For these are the kind who do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of the naive.

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  • 2 Tim 3:1-3
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    1Ministry in the Last Days But understand this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

    2For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

    3unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good,

  • Rom 1:28-32
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    28And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.

    29They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,

    30slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents,

    31senseless, covenant-breakers, heartless, ruthless.

    32Although they fully know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.

  • 2 Tim 3:5-7
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    5They will maintain the outward appearance of religion but will have repudiated its power. So avoid people like these.

    6For some of these insinuate themselves into households and captivate weak women who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions.

    7Such women are always seeking instruction, yet never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.

  • Titus 3:3
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    3For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

  • 2 Pet 2:13-15
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    13suffering harm as the wages for their harmful ways. By considering it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight, they are stains and blemishes, indulging in their deceitful pleasures when they feast together with you.

    14Their eyes, full of adultery, never stop sinning; they entice unstable people. They have trained their hearts for greed, these cursed children!

    15By forsaking the right path they have gone astray, because they followed the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,

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    10especially those who indulge their fleshly desires and who despise authority. Brazen and insolent, they are not afraid to insult the glorious ones,

  • Jude 1:16-19
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    16These people are grumblers and fault-finders who go wherever their desires lead them, and they give bombastic speeches, enchanting folks for their own gain.

    17Exhortation to the Faithful But you, dear friends– recall the predictions foretold by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    18For they said to you,“In the end time there will come scoffers, propelled by their own ungodly desires.”

    19These people are divisive, worldly, devoid of the Spirit.

  • Jude 1:4
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    4For certain men have secretly slipped in among you– men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe– ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

  • Eph 4:19
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    19Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

  • 2 Tim 4:3-4
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    3For there will be a time when people will not tolerate sound teaching. Instead, following their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves, because they have an insatiable curiosity to hear new things.

    4And they will turn away from hearing the truth, but on the other hand they will turn aside to myths.

  • 1 Pet 4:3-4
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    3For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians desire. You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wanton idolatries.

    4So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.

  • 2 Pet 2:18
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    18For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.

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    10sexually immoral people, practicing homosexuals, kidnappers, liars, perjurers– in fact, for any who live contrary to sound teaching.

  • Jude 1:11-12
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    11Woe to them! For they have traveled down Cain’s path, and because of greed have abandoned themselves to Balaam’s error; hence, they will certainly perish in Korah’s rebellion.

    12These men are dangerous reefs at your love feasts, feasting without reverence, feeding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit– twice dead, uprooted;

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    13But evil people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.

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    5not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.

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    4he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in controversies and verbal disputes. This gives rise to envy, dissension, slanders, evil suspicions,

    5and constant bickering by people corrupted in their minds and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a way of making a profit.

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    3Above all, understand this: In the last days blatant scoffers will come, being propelled by their own evil urges

  • Phil 3:19
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    19Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.

  • 2 Pet 2:2-3
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    2And many will follow their debauched lifestyles. Because of these false teachers, the way of truth will be slandered.

    3And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.

  • Jas 4:4
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    4Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy.

  • Rom 1:24-25
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    24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

    25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

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    12And so all of them who have not believed the truth but have delighted in evil will be condemned.

  • Rom 16:18
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    18For these are the kind who do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of the naive.

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    5You have lived indulgently and luxuriously on the earth. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

  • Col 3:5-6
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    5So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

    6Because of these things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

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    10and with every kind of evil deception directed against those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth so as to be saved.

  • Eph 5:6
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    6Live in the Light Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.

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    10For there are many rebellious people, idle talkers, and deceivers, especially those with Jewish connections,

  • Prov 2:14
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    14who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil;