2 Timotius 2:4

2:4 No one in military service gets entangled in matters of everyday life; otherwise he will not please ¹  the one who recruited him.

2 Timotius 3:2

3:2 For people ²  will be lovers of themselves, ³  lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

2 Timotius 4:3

4:3 For there will be a time when people ⁴  will not tolerate sound teaching. Instead, following their own desires, ⁵  they will accumulate teachers for themselves, because they have an insatiable curiosity to hear new things. ⁶ 

[2:4]  ¹ tn Grk “that he may please.”

[3:2]  ² tn Grk “men”; but here ἄνθρωποι (anqrwpoi) is generic, referring to both men and women.

[3:2]  ³ tn Or “self-centered.” The first two traits in 2 Tim 3:2 and the last two in 3:4 are Greek words beginning with the root “lovers of,” and so bracket the list at beginning and end.

[4:3]  ⁴ tn Grk “they”; the referent (the people in that future time) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:3]  ⁵ tn Grk “in accord with.”

[4:3]  ⁶ tn Grk “having an itching in regard to hearing,” “having itching ears.”