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2 Timothy 3:4

2 Timothy 3:4
Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Traitors,.... To their princes and sovereigns, whose deaths they have contrived and compassed, and whom they have assassinated and murdered; and have been betrayers of the secrets of persons, which…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Traitors - This word is used in the New Testament only here and in Luk 6:16; Act 7:52. It means any one who betrays - whether it be a friend or his country. Treason has been in all ages regarded as…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Traitors - Προδοται· From προ, before, and διδωμι, to deliver up. Those who deliver up to an enemy the person who has put his life in their hands; such as the Scots of 1648, who delivered up into the…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

2 Timothy 3:1-9

Timothy must not think it strange if there were in the church bad men; for the net of the gospel was to enclose both good fish and bad, Mat 13:47, Mat 13:48. Jesus Christ had foretold (Mt. 24) that…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

traitors, heady, highminded The last triad again descending, false and forward and full of conceit, the spirit of one who -with a light heart" (1) betrays old friends, and (2) rushes headlong on new…