2 Timothy 3:9 BSB — MannaFest

2 Timothy 3:9

But they will not advance much further. For just like Jannes and Jambres, their folly will be plain to everyone.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be evident unto all men, as theirs also came to be.

KJV

But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.

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Commentary

2 voices

Theophylact of Ohrid

Commentary on 2 Timothy (1107)

How then does the apostle say in another place: "they will increase unto more ungodliness" (2 Tim. 2:16)? There he affirms that heretics, having begun to introduce novelties and errors, do not stop, but constantly invent newer ones. Here, however, he affirms that they will …

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

But they shall proceed no further - There is a certain point beyond which they will not be allowed to go. Their folly will become manifest, and the world will understand it. The apostle does not say how far these false teachers would be allowed to go, but that they would not be suffered always to prosper and prevail. They might be plausible at first, and lead many astray; they might, by art and cunning, cover up the real character of their system; but there would be a fair development of it, and it would be seen to be folly.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἀλλ᾽	all᾽	But	G235 →
οὐ	ou	not	G3756 →
προκόψουσιν	prokopsousin	they will advance	G4298 →
ἐπὶ	epi	further	G1909 →
πλεῖον·	pleion	much;	G4119 →
ἡ	hē	<the>	G3588 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
ἄνοια	anoia	the folly	G454 →
αὐτῶν	autōn	of them	G846 →
ἔκδηλος	ekdēlos	plain	G1552 →
ἔσται	estai	will be	G1510 →
πᾶσιν,	pasin	to all,	G3956 →
ὡς	hōs	as	G5613 →
καὶ	kai	also	G2532 →
ἡ	hē	that	G3588 →
ἐκείνων	ekeinōn	of those [two]	G1565 →
ἐγένετο.¶	egeneto	became.	G1096 →

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

The walk

The walk8

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 3:8
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and disqualified from the faith.
leads to
- Acts 13:8–11
  But Elymas the sorcerer (for that is what his name means) opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul from the faith.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Revelation 2:20
  But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
- Exodus 7:11
  But Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers and magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same things by their magic arts.
- 1 Timothy 6:5
  and constant friction between men of depraved mind who are devoid of the truth. These men regard godliness as a means of gain.
- Titus 1:16
  They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
Through
Exodus 7:12
Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up the other staffs.
leads to
- 1 John 4:4
  You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
- Exodus 8:18–19
  The magicians tried to produce gnats using their magic arts, but they could not. And the gnats remained on man and beast.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Exodus 9:11
The magicians could not stand before Moses, because the boils had broken out on them and on all the Egyptians.
leads to
- Isaiah 47:12–14
  So take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth. Perhaps you will succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror!