2 Timothy 3:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

2 Timothy 3:13 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Timothy 4:1
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Peter 2:20
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
2 Timothy 3:8
Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
2 Thessalonians 2:6-11
And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Conceit Consistency Deceit Deception Dishonesty Dissembling Doctrines

Commentary

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

(vv. 10-17)

Here the apostle, to confirm Timothy in that way wherein he walked, I. Sets before him his own example, which Timothy had been an eye-witness of, having long attended Paul (2 Tim. 3:10): Thou hast fully known my doctrine. The more fully we know the doctrine of Christ and the apostles, the more closely we shall cleave to it; the reason why many sit loose to it is because they do not fully know it.…

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

(vv. 13)

13. Reason why persecutions must be expected, and these becoming worse and worse as the end approaches. The breach between light and darkness, so far from being healed, shall be widened [Alford]. evil men--in contrast to the “godly” (2Ti 3:12). seducers--literally, “conjurers.” Magical arts prevailed at Ephesus (Ac 19:19), and had been renounced by many Ephesians on embracing Christianity: but now…