2 Timothy 3:2-7

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Timothy 3:1-9

Timothy must not think it strange if there were in the church bad men; for the net of the gospel was to enclose both good fish and bad, Matt. 13:47, 48. Jesus Christ had foretold (Matt. 24:1-51) that there would come seducers, and therefore we must not be offended at it, nor think the worse of religion or the church for it. Even in gold ore there will be dross, and a great deal of chaff among the wheat when it lies on the floor. I. Timothy must know that in the last days (2 Tim. 3:1), in... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Timothy 3:2-5

3:2-5 For men will live a life that is centred in self; they will be lovers of money, braggarts, arrogant, lovers of insult, disobedient to their parents, thankless, regardless even of the ultimate decencies of life, without human affection, implacable in hatred, revelling in slander, ungovernable in their passions, savage, not knowing what the love of good is, treacherous, headlong in word and action, inflated with pride, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. They will maintain the... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Timothy 3:2-5

In these terrible days men would be braggarts and arrogant. In Greek writings these two words often went together; and they are both picturesque. Braggart has an interesting derivation. It is the word alazon ( Greek #213 ) and was derived from the ale, which means a wandering about. Originally the alazon ( Greek #213 ) was a wandering quack. Plutarch uses the word to describe a quack doctor. The alazon ( Greek #213 ) was a mountebank who wandered the country with medicines and... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Timothy 3:2-5

These twin qualities of the braggart and the arrogant man inevitably result in love of insult (blasphemia, Greek #988 ). Blasphemia is the word which is transliterated into English as blasphemy. In English we usually associate it with insult against God, but in Greek it means insult against man and God alike. Pride always begets insult. It begets disregard of God, thinking that it does not need him and that it knows better than he. It begets a contempt of men which can issue in hurting... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Timothy 3:2-5

In these terrible days men will be slanderers. The Greek for slanderer is diabolos ( Greek #1228 ) which is precisely the English word devil. The devil is the patron saint of all slanderers and of all slanderers he is chief. There is a sense in which slander is the most cruel of all sins. If a man's goods are stolen, he can set to and build up his fortunes again; but if his good name is taken away, irreparable damage has been done. It is one thing to start an evil and untrue report on its... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Timothy 3:2-5

In these last terrible days men will come to have no love for good things or good persons (aphilagathos, Greek #865 ). There can come a time in a man's life when the company of good people and the presence of good things is simply an embarrassment. He who feeds his mind on cheap literature can in the end find nothing in the great masterpieces. His mental palate loses its taste. A man has sunk far when he finds even the presence of good people something which he would only wish to avoid. ... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Timothy 3:6-7

3:6-7 For from among these there come those who enter into houses, and take captive foolish women, laden with sins and driven by varied desires, ready to listen to any teacher but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. The Christian emancipation of women inevitably brought its problems. We have already seen how secluded the life of the respectable Greek woman was, how she was brought up under the strictest supervision, how she was not allowed "to see anything, to hear anything, or... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Timothy 3:2

For men shall be lovers of their own selves ,.... Not in a good sense, as men may be, and as such are who love their neighbours as themselves, and do that to others they would have done to themselves; and who take all prudent and lawful care to preserve the life and health of their bodies, and seek in a right way the salvation of their immortal souls: but in a bad sense, as such may be said to be, who only love themselves; their love to God, and Christ, and to the saints, being only in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Timothy 3:3

Without natural affection ,.... To parents, or children, or wife; parents thrusting their children into religious houses, cloisters, &c.; against their wills; children leaving their parents without their knowledge or consent; married bishops and priests being obliged to quit their wives, and declare their children spurious; with many other such unnatural actions. Trucebreakers ; or covenant breakers; stirring up princes to break through their treaties and covenants with one another;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Timothy 3:4

Traitors ,.... To their princes and sovereigns, whose deaths they have contrived and compassed, and whom they have assassinated and murdered; and have been betrayers of the secrets of persons, which they have come at by auricular confession to them; and of their best and nearest friends, to preserve and secure themselves. Heady ; rash, daring, bold, and impudent, fit to say and do any thing, though ever so vile and wicked. High, minded ; puffed and swelled up with a vain conceit of... read more

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