1 Timothy 4:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ephesians 4:19
Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
Acts 20:30
Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
Romans 16:18
For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Matthew 24:24
For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
2 Timothy 3:5
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

Topics

Apostasy Backsliders Celibacy Commandments Conceit Conscience Consistency Deceit

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

We have here a prophecy of the apostasy of the latter times, which he had spoken of as a thing expected and taken for granted among Christians, 2 Thess. 2:1-17. I. In the close of the foregoing chapter, we had the mystery of godliness summed up; and therefore very fitly, in the beginning of this chapter, we have the mystery of iniquity summed up: The Spirit speaks expressly that in the latter time…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. Rather translate, “Through (literally, ‘in’; the element in which the apostasy has place) the hypocrisy of lying speakers”; this expresses the means through which “some shall (be led to) depart from the faith,” namely, the reigned sanctity of the seducers (compare “deceivers,” Tit 1:10). having their conscience seared--Greek, “having their own conscience,” &c., that is, not only “speaking lies”…