2 Timothy 3:2

New Century Version

because people will love themselves, love money, brag, and be proud. They will say evil things against others and will not obey their parents or be thankful or be the kind of people God wants.

Cross References

Psalm 10:3

They brag about the things they want. They bless the greedy but hate the Lord.

Psalm 49:6

They trust in their money and brag about their riches.

Psalm 52:1

Mighty warrior, why do you brag about the evil you do? God’s love will continue forever.

Proverbs 6:17

a proud look, a lying tongue, hands that kill innocent people,

Isaiah 10:15

An ax is not better than the person who swings it. A saw is not better than the one who uses it. A stick cannot control the person who picks it up. A club cannot pick up the person!

Daniel 11:36

“The king of the North will do whatever he wants. He will brag about himself and praise himself and think he is even better than a god. He will say things against the God of gods that no one has ever heard. And he will be successful until all the bad things have happened. Then what God has planned to happen will happen.

Daniel 7:25

This king will speak against the Most High God, and he will hurt and kill God’s holy people. He will try to change times and laws that have already been set. The holy people that belong to God will be in that king’s power for three and one-half years.

Matthew 15:6

You teach that person not to honor his father or his mother. You rejected what God said for the sake of your own rules.

Luke 12:15

Then Jesus said to them, “Be careful and guard against all kinds of greed. Life is not measured by how much one owns.”

Luke 16:14

The Pharisees, who loved money, were listening to all these things and made fun of Jesus.

Luke 6:35

But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without hoping to get anything back. Then you will have a great reward, and you will be children of the Most High God, because he is kind even to people who are ungrateful and full of sin.

Acts 5:36

Remember when Theudas appeared? He said he was a great man, and about four hundred men joined him. But he was killed, and all his followers were scattered; they were able to do nothing.

Romans 11:18

So do not brag about those branches that were broken off. If you brag, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

2 Corinthians 5:15

Christ died for all so that those who live would not continue to live for themselves. He died for them and was raised from the dead so that they would live for him.

Philippians 2:21

Other people are interested only in their own lives, not in the work of Jesus Christ.

Colossians 3:5

So put all evil things out of your life: sexual sinning, doing evil, letting evil thoughts control you, wanting things that are evil, and greed. This is really serving a false god.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

He will be against and put himself above any so-called god or anything that people worship. And that Man of Evil will even go into God’s Temple and sit there and say that he is God.

1 Timothy 1:20

Hymenaeus and Alexander have done that, and I have given them to Satan so they will learn not to speak against God.

1 Timothy 1:9

We also know that the law is not made for good people but for those who are against the law and for those who refuse to follow it. It is for people who are against God and are sinful, who are unholy and ungodly, who kill their fathers and mothers, who murder,

1 Timothy 3:3

He must not drink too much wine or like to fight, but rather be gentle and peaceable, not loving money.

1 Timothy 6:10

The love of money causes all kinds of evil. Some people have left the faith, because they wanted to get more money, but they have caused themselves much sorrow.

1 Timothy 6:4

This person is full of pride and understands nothing, but is sick with a love for arguing and fighting about words. This brings jealousy, fighting, speaking against others, evil mistrust,

2 Timothy 3:4

will turn against their friends, and will do foolish things without thinking. They will be conceited, will love pleasure instead of God,

James 2:8

This royal law is found in the Scriptures: “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.” If you obey this law, you are doing right.

James 4:16

But now you are proud and you brag. All of this bragging is wrong.

James 4:6

But God gives us even more grace, as the Scripture says, “God is against the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.”

1 Peter 5:5

In the same way, younger people should be willing to be under older people. And all of you should be very humble with each other. “God is against the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.”

2 Peter 2:10

That punishment is especially for those who live by doing the evil things their sinful selves want and who hate authority. These false teachers are bold and do anything they want. They are not afraid to speak against the angels.

2 Peter 2:12

But these people speak against things they do not understand. They are like animals that act without thinking, animals born to be caught and killed. And, like animals, these false teachers will be destroyed.

2 Peter 2:18

They brag with words that mean nothing. By their evil desires they lead people into the trap of sin—people who are just beginning to escape from others who live in error.

2 Peter 2:3

Those false teachers only want your money, so they will use you by telling you lies. Their judgment spoken against them long ago is still coming, and their ruin is certain.

Jude 1:16

These people complain and blame others, doing the evil things they want to do. They brag about themselves, and they flatter others to get what they want.

Revelation 13:1

Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, and there was a crown on each horn. A name against God was written on each head.

Revelation 16:11

They also cursed the God of heaven because of their pain and the sores they had, but they refused to change their hearts and turn away from the evil things they did.

Revelation 16:21

Giant hailstones, each weighing about a hundred pounds, fell from the sky upon people. People cursed God for the disaster of the hail, because this disaster was so terrible.

Revelation 16:9

They were burned by the great heat, and they cursed the name of God, who had control over these disasters. But the people refused to change their hearts and lives and give glory to God.