-
Verse 13. _EVIL MEN AND SEDUCERS SHALL WAX WORSE_] They will yet get
on for a season, deceiving themselves and deceiving others; but, by
and by, _their folly will become manifest to all_, 2 Timothy 3...
-
BUT EVIL MEN AND SEDUCERS SHALL WAX WORSE AND WORSE - That is, it is
the character of such men to do this; they may be expected to do it.
This is the general law of depravity - that if men are not con...
-
III. THE LAST DAYS AND THEIR PERILS
CHAPTER 3
__
1. The characteristics of the last days (2 Timothy 3:1)
2. What the last days mean for the true believer (2 Timothy 3:8)
3. The need of the Word of...
-
(_b_) 2 TIMOTHY 3:10. TIMOTHY'S SAFEGUARDS. Grave as these dangers
are, however, Timothy has a double safeguard. (_a)_ His present
difficult task does not take him by surprise. When, at Lystra (Acts
1...
-
TIMES OF TERROR (2 Timothy 3:1)
_ 3:1 You must realize this--that in the last days difficult times
will set in._
The early Church lived in an age when the time was waxing late; they
expected the Sec...
-
But you have been my disciple in my teaching, my training, my aim in
life, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance, my persecutions,
my sufferings, in what happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium,...
-
EVIL. App-128.
SEDUCERS. Greek. _goes._ Only here.
WAX. Same as "proceed", 2 Timothy 3:9.
WORSE, &c. -to (App-104.) the worse....
-
The appeal for pure life and doctrine in view both of St Paul's own
past and the evil future
The connexion is: -You were trained to a life the opposite of all
this, in learning to copy me, in learnin...
-
_But evil men and seducers_ The word -seduce" in A.V. occurs nine
times in Old and New Testament always in the general sense of -lead
astray"; everywhere except here it is used to represent the Greek...
-
ΠΟΝΗΡΟῚ ΔῈ ἌΝΘΡΩΠΟΙ, _but_ (sc. in contrast with
those οἱ θέλοντες ζῆν εὐσεβῶς) _evil men_. Cp.
2 Thessalonians 3:2.
ΚΑῚ ΓΌΗΤΕΣ, _and impostors_, lit. _wizards_. The word does
not occur again in the G...
-
TIMOTHY IS COMMENDED FOR HIS LOYALTY AND ENCOURAGED TO ENDURE...
-
SEDUCERS.— The word Γοητες properly signifies _sorcerers,
magicians,_ jugglers, witches, or enchanters. Jannes and Jambres were
evidently such; impostors, who endeavoured to vend a false religion
for...
-
WITHSTAND THE APOSTASY 2 Timothy 3:10-17
_TEXT 3:10-17_
10 But thou didst follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith,
long-suffering, love, patience, 11 persecutions, sufferings; what
things befell...
-
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and
being deceived.
Reason why persecutions must be expected, and these worse and worse
as the end approaches. The breach between lig...
-
12 This is a crucial test of our true state. Are we suffering
persecution? If not, are we in earnest in our will to live devoutly in
Christ Jesus? All who tread this path will be persecuted. Paul hims...
-
3:13 evil, (a-10) Lit. 'to worse.'...
-
EXHORTATION. Timothy was well instructed in the OT. and in the gospel
preached by St. Paul, and he must 'abide in the things that he had
learnt and been assured of.'...
-
WARNINGS AND EXHORTATIONS REGARDING THE LAST DAYS
1-9. In the days immediately preceding the Second Coming, the Lord had
taught that iniquity would abound. St. Paul reminds Timothy of this
truth as a...
-
HOW WE SHOULD ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER TO DO GOD’S WORK
2 TIMOTHY
_IAN MACKERVOY_
CHAPTER 3
EVIL PERSONS IN THE LAST DAYS (3:1-9)
V1 You should be aware that in the last days life will be very
diffi...
-
BUT EVIL MEN AND SEDUCERS SHALL WAX WORSE AND WORSE. — This verse is
closely connected with the following (2 Timothy 3:14), to which,
indeed, it serves as an introduction. 2 Timothy 3:14 takes up agai...
-
πονηροὶ δὲ : The antithesis seems to be between the
apparent discomfiture of those who wish to live in Christ (their
persecution being after all almost a means conditional to their
attaining their des...
-
I am not really uneasy about your steadfastness. You joined me as a
disciple from spiritual and moral inducements only. The persecutions
you saw me endure you knew to be typical of the conditions of a...
-
HOLD FAST TO INSPIRED SCRIPTURE
2 Timothy 3:10
The world does not love Christ or Christians any better than of old;
and all who are minded to live godly lives will come inevitably to the
cross in one...
-
Clearly seeing trouble coming from the teaching of those who were
''holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof,"
the apostle referred to his own manner of life and service as
aff...
-
POWER TO CONFRONT THE COMING APOSTASY
Paul's life stood in contrast to the lives of the false teachers and
should have served as an example to Timothy and others around him. His
teaching was sound and...
-
But evil men and seducers shall wax (d) worse and worse, deceiving,
and being deceived.
(d) Their wickedness will daily increase....
-
I beg the Reader to notice, what a blessed relief the Holy Ghost here
proposeth to Timothy, from the melancholy statement, the preceding
verses had given, in the example of his faithful servant the Ap...
-
Turning to the SECOND EPISTLE, we find that, although there is the
same grand truth of the Saviour God maintained, the state of things
had become sensibly worse, and the hour for the apostle's departu...
-
13_But wicked men and impostors _This is the most bitter of all
persecutions, when we see wicked men, with their sacrilegious
hardihood, with their blasphemies and errors, gathering strength. Thus
Pau...
-
Now this evil influence would too surely be exercised. The power of
the holy truth of God would be lost in the assembly and among
Christians; and those who bore this name would become (under the
influ...
-
BUT EVIL MEN AND SEDUCERS SHALL WAX WORSE AND WORSE,.... By "evil men"
are meant, not sinful men in common, as all are by nature and
practice; nor only open profane sinners but rather wicked men under...
-
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and
being deceived.
Ver. 13. _Shall wax worse and worse_] _In deterius proficient, _ a
sorry kind of profiting, _quando Andabatarum mor...
-
_But_ thou hast a better pattern to follow; for _thou hast fully known
my doctrine_ In all the branches of it; _manner of life_ My conduct
toward God, his people, and all men; _purpose_ The end and de...
-
Men who knowingly seduce others into sin become more and more wicked,
and in deceiving others they often deceive themselves, to their own
destruction....
-
THE SPECIAL LESSONS OF PAUL'S AFFLICTIONS....
-
BUT EVIL MEN AND SEDUCERS SHALL WAX WORSE AND WORSE, DECEIVING AND
BEING DECEIVED.
The apostle here, by way of contrast to the preceding paragraph,
describes the manner of conduct which should charact...
-
When Paul wrote this to Timothy, "the last days" had not yet come, so
it is evident that the epistle is not written strictly for Timothy
personally, but for every individual believer who would follow...
-
10-13 The more fully we know the doctrine of Christ, as taught by the
apostles, the more closely we shall cleave to it. When we know the
afflictions of believers only in part, they tempt us to declin...
-
OLBGrk;
Neither do thou expect that the times should mend, for men that are
given up to their lusts and gohtev, such as go about to deceive
others, will grow _worse and worse, _ as the world groweth...
-
Cyprian Treatise VI On the Vanity of Idols
These spirits, therefore, are lurking under the statues and
consecrated images: these inspire the breasts of their prophets with
their afflatus, animate the...
-
2 Timothy 3:13 But G1161 evil G4190 men G444 and G2532 impostors G1114
grow G4298 (G5692) worse G1909...
-
SECTION 3. THOSE WHO ARE TRULY THE LORD'S MUST EQUIP THEMSELVES
ACCORDINGLY, ESPECIALLY IN VIEW OF THE GRIEVOUS TIMES THAT ARE COMING
(2 TIMOTHY 2:19 TO 2 TIMOTHY 3:17).
Having called on him to endure...
-
2 Timothy 3:13. Again we have an oscillation of thought, and the
immediate advance of evil becomes prominent. The chasm would grow
wider till the final issue.
SEDUCERS. Better, ‘ _magicians_,' ‘ _so...
-
IMPOSTORS
(γοητες). Old word from wailers (γοαω, to bewail),
professional mourners, deceivers, jugglers. Here only in the N.T.
Modern impostors know all the tricks of the trade.SHALL WAX WORSE AND...
-
2 Timothy 3:1. This know also, that in the last days perilous times
shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous,
boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful,...
-
CONTENTS: Apostasy predicted. The believer's resource, the Scriptures.
CHARACTERS: Christ, Paul, Timothy, Jannes, Jambres, Moses.
CONCLUSION: The last days of the Gospel dispensation will be perilous...
-
2 Timothy 3:1. _In the last days perilous times shall come._ So the
Spirit expressly spake when the measure of the jews should be full,
when they should even deliver up their relatives to death, and w...
-
BUT EVIL MEN AND IMPOSTORS. This will be true all during the Christian
Age, until Christ returns!!! _Impostor_ can mean sorcerer (see 2
Timothy 3:8), and the Devil will COUNTERFEIT the power of God (2...
-
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_
2 Timothy 3:10. BUT THOU HAST FULLY KNOWN.—R.V. “didst follow.”
The mental process of investigation and the moral process of imitating
the good seem to blend in this...
-
EXPOSITION
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
_But know this _for _this know also_,_ _A.V.; _grievous _for
_perilous_,_ _A.V. GRIEVOUS TIMES (καιροὶ χαλεποί)._
_"Grievous" is not a very good rendering. "Perilous," thou...
-
Ver. 13. _But evil men and deceivers shall grow worse and worse,
deceiving, and being deceived._ We have here, by way of contrast to
the life and experience of such as live piously in Christ, a return...
-
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Second Timothy chapter three? Paul
said to Timothy,
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come (2
Timothy 3:1).
It is interesting that the Scri...
-
1 Timothy 4:1; 2 Peter 2:20; 2 Peter 3:3; 2 Thessalonians 2:11;...
-
Seducers [γ ο ν τ ε ς]. N. T. o. Better, impostors or deceivers.
From goan to howl. Originally, one who chants spells; a wizard,
sorcerer. Hence, a cheat.
Shall wax worse and worse [π ρ ο κ ο ψ ο υ σ...
-
SEVEN BIBLE MOTHERS
2 Timothy 1:1; _2 Timothy 3:13_
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We are studying a theme today which should have in it much of value to
every one of us; even the men and the young men love mot...
-
Deceiving and being deceived — He who has once begun to deceive
others is both the less likely to recover from his own error, and the
more ready to embrace the errors of other men....
-
Our apostle having acquainted us, in the former verse, with the
condition of the godly, that they must expect and prepare for
persecution; he lets us in this verse understand the miserable
condition o...