2 Timothy 3:2 meaning and explanation

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

2 Timothy 3:2, Berean Standard Bible

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Paul writes to Timothy, his younger coworker in Ephesus, describing the moral climate of the "last days," the period between Christ's first and second coming. The list that begins here is not a prediction of a distant future but a portrait of ordinary human sinfulness, and it starts with two loves: self and money.

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