...adherence to the mere semblance of piety may be learnt from the statements which introduce the text. Men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters,...are good; traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. How terrible a picture ; and how calculated to inspire us with a...

...recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. 410 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall...but denying the power thereof. From such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led...

...may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall...high-minded, lovers of pleasures, more than lovers of Ood, having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof. From such turn away. For of this sort...

...by him in the foregoing verses with a long and lamentable catalogue of the greatest sins and vices : For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous,...that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God: and then it follows in the text, having a form of godliness. Upon...

...by him in the foregoing verses with a long and lamentable catalogue of the greatest sins and vices : For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous,...that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God: and then it follows in the text, having a form of godliness. Upon...

...concluding portion of the latter times, which he contradistinctively denominates the last days. This Jmow also, that, in THE LAST DAYS, perilous times shall...but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. Of these there are some, which creep into houses; and which lead captive silly women, laden with sins,...

...times" should come, and the specific argument on which he grounded his assertion was, that men should be " lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters,...lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power." Had the apostle been all his life conversant with the various classes of society in the...

...our subject, viz. the first seven verses of the third chapter of the Second Epistle to Timothy." This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall...truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, ^fierce, despiscrs of those that are good, traitors, heady, high minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers...

...of the same description of persons that Paul writes in his epistle to Timothy when he says, " This know, also, that in the last days perilous times shall...are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God: having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof-—from...

...received with thanksgiving of them who believe and know the truth." 1 Tim. iv. 1 — 3. Again, " This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall...that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God ; — having a form of godliness, but dejiyirigthe power thereof,"...