Context 3:2 For people1 will be lovers of themselves,2 lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
[3:2]1tnGrk “men”; but here ἄνθρωποι (anqrwpoi) is generic, referring to both men and women.
[3:2]2tn Or “self-centered.” The first two traits in 2 Tim 3:2 and the last two in 3:4 are Greek words beginning with the root “lovers of,” and so bracket the list at beginning and end.