2 Timothy 3:2-6

3:2 For people ¹  will be lovers of themselves, ²  lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3:3 unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good, 3:4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God. 3:5 They will maintain the outward appearance ³  of religion but will have repudiated its power. So avoid people like these. ⁴  3:6 For some of these insinuate themselves ⁵  into households and captivate weak women ⁶  who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions.

[3:2]  ¹ tn Grk “men”; but here ἄνθρωποι (anqrwpoi) is generic, referring to both men and women.

[3:2]  ² tn 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.

[3:5]  ³ tn Or “form.”

[3:5]  ⁴ tn Grk “and avoid these,” with the word “people” implied.

[3:6]  ⁵ tn Grk “For from these are those who sneak.”

[3:6]  ⁶ tn Or “silly women.”