Second Timothy 3:1-17

II Timothy 3:1-9:

^3:1But this you must know: that in (the) last days fierce times will stand-in, ^.2for men will be lovers-of-self, lovers-of-silver, imposters, arrogant-people, blasphemers, people-un-persuaded by parents, unthankful-people, unholy-people, ^.3people-without-affection, people-not-entering-into-treaty, devilish-people, incontinent-people, untamed-people, not-lovers-of-good, ^.4betrayers, precipitous-people, having been conceited², lovers-of-delight rather than lovers-of-God, ^.5having a formulation of reverence but having denied² its ability – and from these-people you must turn-yourself-away – ^.6for out-from these-people are the (people) entering-in into the houses and taking-captive little-womanish-people having been heaped² with sins, being led by variegated intense-yearnings, ^.7always learning and never being able to come into full-knowledge of truth; ^.8but (according to) which manner Jannes and Jambres stood-against Moses thus also these-people stand-themselves-against the truth, men having been corrupted-down² (with respect to) the mind, unapproved-people concerning the belief, ^.9but they will not advance on more for their un-mindfulness will be clear-out to all-people as also the (un-mindfulness) of those-people became (clear-out to all-people).

Paul continues teaching Timothy: but this you must know (personally with a truly active and relative knowing): that during the last days (the final or extreme days, the more remote, uttermost span of time while we await Christ coming to gather all holy-people together with him in the air) fierce times will stand-in (extremely hard precise occasions, difficult specific seasons, hostile opportune periods of limited-time will stand in effect, in force).

In truth, men (mankind, whether male or female) will be…

• lovers-of-self (people who love themselves with the brotherly or friendly kind of love, as opposed to loving others, selfish, self-centered),
• lovers-of-silver (people who love silver coins, money, with the brotherly or friendly kind of love, money-lovers),
• imposters (people who wander-about pretending to be someone or something other-than what they truly are),
• arrogant-people (people who are haughty, giving the impression of superiority or being-over others evidenced by them in an overbearing manner),
• blasphemers (people who speak evilly, treat others with lack of Godly reverential respect, calumniate),
• people-un-persuaded by parents (people who are unwilling to be persuaded or convinced by the Godly instruction given to them by their fathers and mothers, not behaving in a Godly manner towards their parents as God asks children to behave no matter what age they are)
• unthankful-people (this word could also be translated as “ungracious-people”- ungraceful, people who do not freely bestow anything to others when there is no merit on the recipient's part to receive it, and also when they are the recipients of grace they do not express any gratitude to the giver of the grace, ungrateful),
• unholy-people (those who do not practice holiness which is pure-Godliness free from all crime, those who are not in the condition of religiously observing all God says, who do not practice every duty and function and thereby do not fulfill every obligation which God has given to be believed and carried-out),
• people-without-affection (people without the natural-family tender affection normally between parents and their children, which is also the natural instinct of most animals, birds, etc),
• people-not-entering-into-treaty (literally: people without libation, they do not pour a drink at the end of negotiations to seal the treaty; referring to people who refuse to enter into an agreement or league about some issue and they remain in a state of combat ultimately against the only true God),
• devilish-people (people who behave in a manner that is on a par with the devil throwing, casting things through people, like stabbing a person from outside through the person and out the other side with an accusation, slander, etc)
• incontinent-people (people who lack self-restraint, not having power or command over themselves, they are without self-control),
• untamed-people (people who are savage, brutal),
• not-lovers-of-good (people who do not love good with the brotherly or friendly kind of love, who do not love what issues from God Who is good and sets the standard for what is good, who do not love what is perfectly admirable from God's viewpoint and according to His words and intention because He is the source of all true goodness),
• betrayers (traitors, people who give others to the enemy),
• precipitous-people (people who are headlong, rash, as though falling-forward and then unable to stop themselves),
• having been conceited and continuing conceited (people who have already been beclouded, wrapped-up in their own importance, etc, as being engulfed in smoke in their minds and activities refusing to see, etc, what is outside of themselves, and they are staying this way),
• lovers-of-delight rather than lovers-of-God (people who love sweetness, the feeling of relish of taste, who love the pleasurable sensation with the brotherly or friendly kind of love, more-so than people who love the only true God with the brotherly or friendly kind of love),
• having a formulation of reverence (holding the embodiment of well/good service, reverential respect of/towards God) but having denied and continuing denying its ability (but having already disowned, negated and rejected the able-power of reverence, and still denying the capability pertaining to reverence)…

… – with emphasis, from these people you must turn yourself away (move yourself away from these people without even going close to them).

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