2 Timothy 3:3

Bible in Basic English

Without natural love, bitter haters, saying evil of others, violent and uncontrolled, hating all good,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,

King James Version (1611)
Without naturall affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

King James Version
Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

English Standard Version
heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,

New American Standard Bible
unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,

New Century Version
They will not love others, will refuse to forgive, will gossip, and will not control themselves. They will be cruel, will hate what is good,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,

Legacy Standard Bible
unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, without gentleness, without love for good,

Berean Standard Bible
unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good,

Contemporary English Version
heartless, and hateful. Their words will be cruel, and they will have no self-control or pity. These people will hate everything that is good.

Complete Jewish Bible
heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, uncontrolled, brutal, hateful of good,

Darby Translation
without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good,

Easy-to-Read Version
They will have no love for others and will refuse to forgive anyone. They will talk about others to hurt them and will have no self-control. They will be cruel and hate what is good.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Without naturall affection, truce breakers, false accusers, intemperate, fierce, no louers at all of them which are good,

George Lamsa Translation
False accusers, addicts to lust, brutal, haters of good things,

Good News Translation
they will be unkind, merciless, slanderers, violent, and fierce; they will hate the good;

Lexham English Bible
hardhearted, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, with no interest for what is good,

Literal Translation
without natural feeling, unyielding, slanderers, without self-control, savage, haters of good,

Amplified Bible
[and they will be] unloving [devoid of natural human affection, calloused and inhumane], irreconcilable, malicious gossips, devoid of self-control [intemperate, immoral], brutal, haters of good,

American Standard Version
without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,

Hebrew Names Version
without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,

International Standard Version
unfeeling, uncooperative, slanderous, degenerate, brutal, hateful of what is good,Romans 1:31; 2 Peter 3:3;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
subjected to lust, brutal, haters of the good,

Murdock Translation
calumniators, addicted to concupiscence, ferocious, haters of the good,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Without naturall affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, riotous, fierce, despisers of them which are good,

English Revised Version
without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self–control, fierce, no lovers of good,

World English Bible
without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, Without natural affection, covenant-breakers, slanderers, intemperate, fierce, despisers of good men,

Weymouth's New Testament
destitute of natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers. They will have no self-control, but will be brutal, opposed to goodness,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
cursid, with outen affeccioun, with out pees, false blameris, vncontynent, vnmylde,

Update Bible Version
without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,

Webster's Bible Translation
Without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

New English Translation
unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good,

New King James Version
unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,

New Living Translation
They will be unloving and unforgiving; they will slander others and have no self-control. They will be cruel and hate what is good.

New Life Bible
They will not love each other. No one can get along with them. They will tell lies about others. They will not be able to keep from doing things they know they should not do. They will be wild and want to beat and hurt those who are good.

New Revised Standard
inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, brutes, haters of good,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
without natural affection, accepting no truce, given to intrigue, without self-control, uncivilized, unfriendly to good men,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Without affection, without peace, slanderers, incontinent, unmerciful, without kindness,

Revised Standard Version
inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, fierce, haters of good,

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
vnkinde trucebreakers stubborn falce accusars ryatours fearce despisers of the which are good

Young's Literal Translation
without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, not lovers of those who are good,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
vnkynde, truce breakers, false accusers, ryatours, fearce, despysers of them which are good,

Mace New Testament (1729)
villainous, unnatural, perfidious, defamers, debauchees,

Simplified Cowboy Version
Their saddlebags will be filled with hate and unforgiveness. They'll be slaves to lust and slander. Cruelty will mark their trail and they will hate anything that is good.

Contextual Overview

¹ But be certain of this, that in the last days times of trouble will come. ² For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, uplifted in pride, given to bitter words, going against the authority of their fathers, never giving praise, having no religion, ³ Without natural love, bitter haters, saying evil of others, violent and uncontrolled, hating all good, ⁴ False to their friends, acting without thought, lifted up in mind, loving pleasure more than God; ⁵ Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these. ⁶ For these are they who go secretly into houses, making prisoners of foolish women, weighted down with sin, turned from the way by their evil desires, ⁷ Ever learning, and never coming to the knowledge of what is true. ⁸ And as James and Jambres went against Moses, so do these go against what is true: men of evil minds, who, tested by faith, are seen to be false. ⁹ But they will go no farther: for their foolish behaviour will be clear to all men, as theirs was in the end.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

natural: Matthew 10:21, Romans 1:31

trucebreakers: 2 Samuel 21:1-3, Psalms 15:4, Ezekiel 17:15-19, Romans 1:31,*Gr.

false accusers: or, make-bates, Matthew 4:1, John 6:70, 1 Timothy 3:11, Titus 2:3, All in Gr

incontinent: 1 Corinthians 7:5, 1 Corinthians 7:9, 2 Peter 2:14, 2 Peter 2:19, 2 Peter 3:3, Jude 1:16, Jude 1:18

fierce: Genesis 49:7, Daniel 8:23, Revelation 13:15, Revelation 13:17, Revelation 16:6, Revelation 17:6

despisers: Psalms 22:6, Isaiah 53:3, Isaiah 60:14, Luke 10:16, Luke 16:14, 1 Thessalonians 4:8, James 2:6

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:16 - General Exodus 23:1 - an unrighteous witness Leviticus 19:16 - talebearer 1 Kings 3:26 - give her 2 Chronicles 16:3 - break Proverbs 14:2 - but Ezekiel 17:16 - whose oath Hosea 10:4 - swearing Micah 3:2 - hate Micah 7:6 - son Romans 11:20 - Be Ephesians 4:31 - evil speaking Titus 3:3 - living James 4:11 - Speak

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and I took it.

Genesis 3:13
And the Lord God said to the woman, What have you done? And the woman said, I was tricked by the deceit of the snake and I took it.

Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your master.

Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.

Genesis 20:6
And God said to him in the dream, I see that you have done this with an upright heart, and I have kept you from sinning against me: for this reason I did not let you come near her.

1 Chronicles 16:22
Saying, Put not your hand on those who have been marked with my holy oil, and do my prophets no wrong.

Job 1:11
But now, put out your hand against all he has, and he will be cursing you to your face.

Job 2:5
But now, if you only put your hand on his bone and his flesh, he will certainly be cursing you to your face.

Job 19:21
Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.

1 Corinthians 7:1
Now, as to the things in your letter to me: It is good for a man to have nothing to do with a woman.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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; dissolving the allegiance of subjects to their sovereigns, and moving them to rebellion against them; loosing the marriage bond between husband and wife; making void all oaths, contracts, and agreements, among men, which stand in the way of their designs; teaching that no faith is to be kept with heretics.

False accusers; or devils, being like Satan, the accuser of the brethren, charging all that depart from their communion with schism and heresy.

Incontinent; though they pretend to the gift of continency, yet give themselves up to all lasciviousness, and work all uncleanness with greediness; or "intemperate" in eating and drinking, indulging themselves in rioting and drunkenness: "she hath lived deliciously", Revelation 18:7.

Fierce; like beasts of prey; such was Rome Pagan, in the times of the ten persecutions; and such has been Rome Papal, exercising the greatest cruelties and barbarities on the saints, being drunk with their blood.

Despisers of those that are good; or without love to good; both to good works, to which they are reprobate, notwithstanding all their pretensions to them, and bluster about them; and to good men, whom they hate.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Without natural affection - see the notes at Romans 1:31.

Trucebreakers - The same word in Romans 1:31, is rendered “implacable;” see the notes at that verse. It properly means “without treaty;” that is, those who are averse to any treaty or compact. It may thus refer to those who are unwilling to enter into any agreement; that is, either those who are unwilling to be reconciled to others when there is a variance - implacable; or those who disregard treaties or agreements. In either case, this marks a very corrupt condition of society. Nothing would be more indicative of the lowest state of degradation, than that in which all compacts and agreements were utterly disregarded.

False accusers - Margin, “makebates.” The word “makebate” means one who excites contentions and quarrels. Webster. The Greek here is διάβολοι diaboloi - “devils” - the primitive meaning of which is, “calumniator, slanderer, accuser;” compare the notes at 1 Timothy 3:11, where the word is rendered “slanderers.”

Incontinent - 1 Corinthians 7:5. Literally, “without strength;” that is, without strength to resist the solicitations of passion, or who readily yield to it.

Fierce - The Greek word used here - ἀνήμερος anēmeros - does not elsewhere occur in the New Testament. It means “ungentle, harsh, severe,” and is the opposite of gentleness and mildness. Religion produces gentleness; the want of it makes men rough, harsh, cruel; compare the notes at 2 Timothy 2:24.

Despisers of those that are good - In Titus 1:8, it is said of a bishop that he must be “a lover of good men.” This, in every condition of life, is a virtue, and hence, the opposite of it is here set down as one of the characteristics of that evil age of which the apostle speaks.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Timothy 3:3. Without natural affection — αστοργοι. Without that affection which parents bear to their young, and which the young bear to their parents. An affection which is common to every class of animals; consequently, men without it are worse than brutes.

Truce-breakers — ασπονδοι. From α, negative, and σπονδη, a libation, because in making treaties libations both of blood and wine were poured out. The word means those who are bound by no promise, held by no engagement, obliged by no oath; persons who readily promise any thing, because they never intend to perform.

False accusers — διαβολοι. Devils; but properly enough rendered false accusers, for this is a principal work of the devil. Slanderers; striving ever to ruin the characters of others.

Incontinent — ακρατεις. From α, negative, and κρατος, power. Those who, having sinned away their power of self-government, want strength to govern their appetites; especially those who are slaves to uncleanness.

Fierce — ανημεροι. From α, negative, and ημερος, mild or gentle. Wild, impetuous, whatever is contrary to pliability and gentleness.

Despisers of those that are good — αφιλαγαθοι. Not lovers of good men. Here is a remarkable advantage of the Greek over the English tongue, one word of the former expressing five or six of the latter. Those who do not love the good must be radically bad themselves.