2 Timothy 3:1 BSB — MannaFest

2 Timothy 3:1

But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come.

KJV

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

This know also - The “object” of this reference to the perilous times which were to occur, was evidently to show the necessity of using every precaution to preserve the purity of the church, from the fact that such sad scenes were to open upon it. The apostle had dwelt upon this subject in his First Epistle to Timothy 2 Tim. 4, but its importance leads him to advert to it again.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

In the last days - The time of the gospel dispensation, commencing at the time of our Lord's death, is peculiarly styled the last days. Grievous - Troublesome and dangerous.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Τοῦτο	Touto	This	G3778 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
γίνωσκε,	ginōske	do realize,	G1097 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
ἐσχάταις	eschatais	[the] last	G2078 →
ἡμέραις	hēmerais	days	G2250 →
ἐνστήσονται	enstēsontai	will be present	G1764 →
καιροὶ	kairoi	times	G2540 →
χαλεποί.	chalepoi	difficult.	G5467 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.
leads to
- 2 Peter 2:1–3
  Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on…
- 2 Timothy 3:1–6
  But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come.
- 1 Timothy 4:1–3
  Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,
- 1 Timothy 1:10
  for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching
- Galatians 4:16
  Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
Through
1 John 2:18
Children, it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour.
leads to
- 1 John 4:3
  and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and which is already in the world at this…
- 2 John 1:7
  For many deceivers have gone out into the world, refusing to confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.
- 1 John 2:22
  Who is the liar, if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son.