2 Timothy 3:4
Good News Translation
they will be treacherous, reckless, and swollen with pride; they will love pleasure rather than God;

New Revised Standard Version
treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

Contemporary English Version
They will be sneaky, reckless, and puffed up with pride. Instead of loving God, they will love pleasure.

New American Bible
traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Traitors, stubborn, puffed up, and lovers of pleasure more than of God:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Traitors, stubborn, puffed up, and lovers of pleasure more than of God:

Traitors.

2 Peter 2:10 And especially them who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise government: audacious, self willed, they fear not to bring in sects, blaspheming.

*etc:

Jude 1:8,9 In like manner, these men also defile the flesh and despise dominion and blaspheme majesty. . . .

high-minded.

Romans 11:20 Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear.

1 Timothy 6:17 Charge the rich of this world not to be highminded nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God (who giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy)

lovers of God.

Romans 16:18 For they that are such serve not Christ our Lord but their own belly: and by pleasing speeches and good words seduce the hearts of the innocent.

Philippians 3:18,19 For many walk, of whom I have told you often (and now tell you weeping) that they are enemies of the cross of Christ: . . .

1 Timothy 5:6 For she that liveth in pleasures is dead while she is living.

2 Peter 2:13,15 Receiving the reward of their injustice, counting for a pleasure the delights of a day: stains and spots, sporting themselves to excess, rioting in their feasts with you: . . .

Jude 1:4,19 For certain men are secretly entered in (who were written of long ago unto this judgment), ungodly men, turning the grace of our Lord God into riotousness and denying the only sovereign Ruler and our Lord Jesus Christ. . . .

Context
Evil in the Last Days
3Without affection, without peace, slanderers, incontinent, unmerciful, without kindness, 4Traitors, stubborn, puffed up, and lovers of pleasure more than of God: 5Having an appearance indeed of godliness but denying the power thereof. Now these avoid.…
Cross References
Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them who foretold of the coming of the Just One: of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers.

Acts 19:36
For as much therefore as these things cannot be contradicted, you ought to be quiet and to do nothing rashly.

Romans 11:20
Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear.

Philippians 3:19
Whose end is destruction: whose God is their belly: and whose glory is in their shame: who mind earthly things.

1 Timothy 3:6
Not a neophyte: lest, being puffed up with pride, he fall into the judgment of the devil.

2 Timothy 3:3
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