2 Timothy 3:3
Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
KJV
ἄστοργοι, ἄσπονδοι, διάβολοι, ἀκρατεῖς, ἀνήμεροι, ἀφιλάγαθοι,
Greek NT
sine affectione, sine pace, criminatores, incontinentes, immites, sine benignitate,
Vulgate
without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
ASV
Without affection, without peace, slanderers, incontinent, unmerciful, without kindness,
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
6 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
διάβολος
diabolos
adjective · 37×
ἀκρατής
akrates
adjective · 1×
ἀνήμερος
anemeros
adjective · 1×
ἀφιλάγαθος
aphilagathos
adjective · 1×
ἄσπονδος
aspondos
adjective · 1×
ἄστοργος
astorgos
adjective · 2×
Themes
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 7:5 — Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
- 1Cor 7:9 — But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
- 1Thess 4:8 — He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
- 1Tim 3:11 — Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
- 1Tim 3:11 — Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
- 2Pet 2:14 — Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
- 2Pet 3:3 — Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
- 2Sam 21:1 — Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonit
- Dan 8:23 — And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
- Exod 20:16 — Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
- Exod 23:1 — Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
- Ezek 17:15 — But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the cove
- Gen 49:7 — Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
- Isa 53:3 — He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
- Isa 60:14 — The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LO
- Jas 2:6 — But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
- Jas 4:11 — Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of
- John 6:70 — Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?
- Jude 1:16 — These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
- Jude 1:18 — How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
- Lev 19:16 — Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.
- Luke 10:16 — He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
- Luke 16:14 — And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
- Matt 4:1 — Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
- Matt 10:21 — And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
- Mic 3:2 — Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
- Ps 22:6 — But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
- Rev 13:15 — And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
- Rev 13:17 — And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
- Rev 16:6 — For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
- Rev 17:6 — And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
- Rom 1:31 — Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
- Rom 1:31 — Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
- Rom 11:20 — Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
- Titus 1:8 — But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
- Titus 2:3 — The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;