2 Timothy 3:2

Difficult Times Ahead In The Last Days

¹ But of this be assured: in the last days grievous times will set in. ² For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, profane. They will be disobedient to parents, thankless, irreligious, ³ destitute of natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers. They will have no self-control, but will be brutal, opposed to goodness,

Disobedient to Parents

Lovers of Money

No

Philippians 2:21

Everybody concerns himself about his own interests, not about those of Jesus Christ.

Jude 1:16

These men are murmurers, ever bemoaning their lot. Their lives are guided by their evil passions, and their mouths are full of big, boastful words, while they treat individual men with admiring reverence for the sake of the advantage they can gain.

Luke 16:14

To all this the Pharisees listened, bitterly jeering at Him; for they were lovers of money.

2 Timothy 3:4

treacherous, headstrong, self-important. They will love pleasure instead of loving God,

James 4:16

But, as the case stands, it is in mere self-confidence that you boast: all such boasting is evil.

2 Peter 2:12

But these men, like brute beasts, created (with their natural instincts)

Mark 7:11-12

But *you* say, 'If a man says to his father or mother, It is a Korban (that is, a thing devoted to God)

Luke 12:15

And to the people He said, "Take care, be on your guard against all covetousness, for no one's life consists in the superabundance of his possessions."

Acts 5:36

Years ago Theudas appeared, professing to be a person of importance, and a body of men, some four hundred in number, joined him. He was killed, and all his followers were dispersed and annihilated.

Romans 1:29-31

Their hearts overflowed with all sorts of dishonesty, mischief, greed, malice. They were full of envy and murder, and were quarrelsome, crafty, and spiteful.

Romans 11:18

beware of glorying over the natural branches. Or if you are so glorying, do not forget that it is not you who uphold the root: the root upholds you.

Romans 15:1-3

As for us who are strong, our duty is to bear with the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not seek our own pleasure.

2 Corinthians 5:15

and that He died for all in order that the living may no longer live to themselves, but to Him who died for them and rose again.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore put to death your earthward inclinations--fornication, impurity, sensual passion, unholy desire, and all greed, for that is a form of idolatry.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

and exalts himself above, every so-called 'god' or object of worship, and goes the length of taking his seat in the very temple of God, giving it out that he himself is God.

1 Timothy 1:20

Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.

1 Timothy 3:3

not a hard drinker nor given to blows; not selfish or quarrelsome or covetous;

1 Timothy 6:4

he is puffed up with pride and has no true knowledge, but is crazy over discussions and controversies about words which give rise to envy, quarrelling, revilings, ill-natured suspicions,

1 Timothy 6:10

For from love of money all sorts of evils arise; and some have so hankered after money as to be led astray from the faith and be pierced through with countless sorrows.

James 2:8

If, however, you are keeping the Law as supreme, in obedience to the Commandment which says "You are to love your fellow man just as you love yourself," you are acting rightly.

James 4:6

But He gives more abundant grace, as is implied in His saying, "God sets Himself against the haughty, but to the lowly He gives grace."

1 Peter 5:5

In the same way you younger men must submit to your elders; and all of you must gird yourselves with humility towards one another, for God sets Himself against the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

2 Peter 2:3

Thirsting for riches, they will trade on you with their canting talk. From of old their judgement has been working itself out, and their destruction has not been slumbering.

2 Peter 2:14-15

Their very eyes are full of adultery--being eyes which never cease from sin. These men set traps to catch unstedfast souls, their own hearts being well trained in greed. They are fore-doomed to God's curse!

2 Peter 2:18

For, while they pour out their frivolous and arrogant talk, they use earthly cravings--every kind of immorality--as a bait to entrap men who are just escaping from the influence of those who live in error.

Jude 1:10-11

Yet these men are abusive in matters of which they know nothing, and in things which, like the brutes, they understand instinctively--in all these they corrupt themselves.

Revelation 13:1

And he took up a position upon the sands of the sea-shore. Then I saw a Wild Beast coming up out of the sea, and he had ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten kingly crowns, and inscribed on his heads were names full of blasphemy.

Revelation 13:5-6

And there was given him a mouth full of boastful and blasphemous words; and liberty of action was granted him for forty-two months.

Revelation 16:9

And the men were severely burned; and yet they spoke evil of God who had power over the plagues, and they did not repent so as to give Him glory.

Revelation 16:11

and they spoke evil of the God in Heaven because of their pains and their sores, and did not repent of their misconduct.

Revelation 16:21

And heavy hail, that seemed to be a talent in weight, fell from the sky upon the people; and they spoke evil of God on account of the plague of the hail--because the plague of it was exceedingly severe.

Revelation 18:12-13

cargoes of gold and silver, of jewels and pearls, of fine linen, purple and silk, and of scarlet stuff; all kinds of rare woods, and all kinds of goods in ivory and in very costly wood, in bronze, steel and marble.

Matthew 15:6

he shall be absolved from honouring his father'; and so you have abrogated God's Word for the sake of your tradition.