11 translations · Greek
2 Timothy 3:5
holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
2 Timothy 3:5 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
- KJV King James Version
- Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!
- ASV American Standard Version
- holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof: from these also turn away.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- having a form of piety, but having denied its power; and be turning away from these,
- FBV Free Bible Version
- They may give an outward impression of being religious, but they don't actually believe it works. Stay away from these people!
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,
- DBY Darby Translation
- having a form of piety but denying the power of it: and from these turn away.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- Having a form of godliness, but denying its power: from such turn away.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- holding a form of godliness but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- Having an appearance indeed of godliness, but denying the power thereof. Now these avoid.
The Greek words
Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἔχοντες | echontes | having | G2192 ἔχω to have/be |
| μόρφωσιν | morphōsin | a form | G3446 μόρφωσις form |
| εὐσεβείας | eusebeias | of godliness | G2150 εὐσέβεια piety |
| τὴν | tēn | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| δὲ | de | but | G1161 δέ then |
| δύναμιν | dynamin | power | G1411 δύναμις power |
| αὐτῆς | autēs | its | G846 αὐτός it/s/he |
| ἠρνημένοι | ērnēmenoi | denying | G720 ἀρνέομαι to deny |
| καὶ | kai | — | G2532 καί and |
| τούτους | toutous | [such] as these | G3778 οὗτος this/he/she/it |
| ἀποτρέπου | apotrepou | Turn away from | G665 ἀποτρέπω to avoid |
Related verses
- Isaiah 29:13
The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;
- Titus 1:16
They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
- Matthew 23:27–28
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
- 1 Timothy 5:8
But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
- Romans 2:20–24
a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth. You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal? You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery. Do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? …
- Matthew 7:15
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.
- Titus 3:10
Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning,
- Ezekiel 33:30–32
“As for you, son of man, the children of your people talk about you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak to one another, everyone to his brother, saying, ‘Please come and hear what the word is that comes out from Yahweh.’ They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain. Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don’t do them.
- Romans 16:17–18
Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them. For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
- 2 Timothy 2:16
But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness,
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
3 without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,
4 traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
5 holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
6 For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
7 always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Read all of 2 Timothy 3 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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