2 Timothy 3:2

World English Bible (2000)

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

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  • Jude 1:16 : 16 These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
  • Ps 10:3 : 3 For the wicked boasts of his heart's cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.
  • Phil 2:21 : 21 For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
  • 2 Pet 2:12 : 12 But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,
  • 2 Tim 3:4 : 4 traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
  • Jas 4:16 : 16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
  • Luke 16:14 : 14 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
  • Ps 49:6 : 6 Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches--
  • Ps 52:1 : 1 Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God's loving kindness endures continually.
  • Prov 6:17 : 17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;
  • Isa 10:15 : 15 Should an axe brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.
  • Dan 7:25 : 25 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 The king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods; and he shall prosper until the indignation be accomplished; for that which is determined shall be done.
  • Acts 5:36 : 36 For before these days Theudas rose up, making 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 nothing.
  • Rom 1:29-31 : 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers, 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;
  • Rom 11:18 : 18 don't boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.
  • Rom 15:1-3 : 1 Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up. 3 For even Christ didn't please himself. But, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."
  • 2 Cor 5:15 : 15 He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
  • Col 3:5 : 5 Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
  • 2 Thess 2:4 : 4 he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
  • 1 Tim 1:20 : 20 of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.
  • 1 Tim 3:3 : 3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
  • 1 Tim 6:4 : 4 he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,
  • 1 Tim 6:10 : 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
  • 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
  • Rev 13:1 : 1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.
  • Rev 13:5-6 : 5 A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him. 6 He opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his dwelling, those who dwell in heaven.
  • Rev 16:9 : 9 People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn't repent and give him glory.
  • Rev 16:11 : 11 and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. They didn't repent of their works.
  • Rev 16:21 : 21 Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe.
  • Rev 18:12-13 : 12 merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, scarlet, all expensive wood, every vessel of ivory, every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble; 13 and cinnamon, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, and people's bodies and souls.
  • Jas 2:8 : 8 However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.
  • Jas 4:6 : 6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
  • Mark 7:11-12 : 11 But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban, that is to say, given to God;"' 12 then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,
  • Luke 12:15 : 15 He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses."
  • 2 Pet 2:14-15 : 14 having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing; 15 forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
  • Jude 1:10-11 : 10 But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, they are destroyed in these things. 11 Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah's rebellion.
  • Matt 15:6 : 6 he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.

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  • Rom 1:28-31
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    28 Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

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    30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

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    3 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

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    16 These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

    17 But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    18 They said to you that "In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts."

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    13 receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

    14 having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

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    5 Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

    6 for which things' sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

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    4 For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

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    5 Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

    6 Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

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    13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

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    22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

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    24 Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

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

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    3 For the wicked boasts of his heart's cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.

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    15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

    16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.

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    2 Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.

    3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

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    3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

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    19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

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    15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

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    3 But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;