2 Timotius 3:1
KonteksMinistry in the Last Days
3:1 But understand this, that in the last days difficult 1 times will come.
2 Timotius 4:3-4
Konteks4:3 For there will be a time when people 2 will not tolerate sound teaching. Instead, following their own desires, 3 they will accumulate teachers for themselves, because they have an insatiable curiosity to hear new things. 4 4:4 And they will turn away from hearing the truth, but on the other hand they will turn aside to myths. 5
[3:1] 1 tn Or perhaps, “dangerous,” “fierce.”
[4:3] 2 tn Grk “they”; the referent (the people in that future time) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[4:3] 3 tn Grk “in accord with.”
[4:3] 4 tn Grk “having an itching in regard to hearing,” “having itching ears.”
[4:4] 5 sn These myths were legendary tales characteristic of the false teachers in Ephesus and Crete. See parallels in 1 Tim 1:4; 4:7; and Titus 1:14.