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2 Tim. 3:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Without natural affection, trucebreakers, ηfalse accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

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or, make-bates.

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Matt. 10:21• ²¹And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death. (Matt. 10:21)

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Rom. 1:31• ³¹Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: (Rom. 1:31)

trucebreakers.

2 Sam. 21:1‑3• ¹Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
²And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
³Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the Lord? (2 Sam. 21:1‑3)

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Psa. 15:4• ⁴In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoreth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not. (Psa. 15:4)

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Ezek. 17:15‑19• ¹⁵But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?
¹⁶As I live, saith the Lord God, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
¹⁷Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:
¹⁸Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.
¹⁹Therefore thus saith the Lord God; As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head. (Ezek. 17:15‑19)

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Rom. 1:31• ³¹Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: (Rom. 1:31)

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false accusers.

or, make-bates.

Matt. 4:1• ¹Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. (Matt. 4:1)

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John 6:70• ⁷⁰Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil? (John 6:70)

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1 Tim. 3:11• ¹¹Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. (1 Tim. 3:11)

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Titus 2:3• ³The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; (Titus 2:3)

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incontinent.

1 Cor. 7:5,9• ⁵Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
⁹But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. (1 Cor. 7:5,9)

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2 Peter 2:14,19• ¹⁴Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
¹⁹While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. (2 Peter 2:14,19)

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2 Peter 3:3• ³Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, (2 Peter 3:3)

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Jude 16,18• ¹⁶These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
¹⁸How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. (Jude 16,18)

fierce.

Gen. 49:7• ⁷Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. (Gen. 49:7)

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Dan. 8:23• ²³And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. (Dan. 8:23)

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Rev. 13:15,17• ¹⁵And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
¹⁷And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. (Rev. 13:15,17)

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Rev. 16:6• ⁶For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. (Rev. 16:6)

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Rev. 17:6• ⁶And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. (Rev. 17:6)

despisers.

Psa. 22:6• ⁶But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. (Psa. 22:6)

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Isa. 53:3• ³He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. (Isa. 53:3)

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Isa. 60:14• ¹⁴The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel. (Isa. 60:14)

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Luke 10:16• ¹⁶He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me. (Luke 10:16)

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Luke 16:14• ¹⁴And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. (Luke 16:14)

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1 Thess. 4:8• ⁸He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit. (1 Thess. 4:8)

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James 2:6• ⁶But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? (James 2:6)

J. N. Darby Translation

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without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is goodi,

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Or "the good" (persons).

W. Kelly Translation

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without natural affectiona, implacable, slanderers, uncontrolled, fierce, haters of good,

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The KJV gives the simple, full, and unambiguous meaning of (astorgoi) "without natural affection." Some few authorities of all kinds invert their relative order; but this would seem strange disorder morally, compared with the true place of each as represented by the best witnesses.