'Last Days' Man

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"But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; holding to a form of godliness, although they denied its power. Avoid such men as these."
[2 Timothy 3:1-5 NASB]

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The following is a Strong's word study of each of these nineteen biblically-described characteristics of this "last days" man:

1.) lovers of self (philautoi, #5367, "self-centered, narcissistic, selfish").

2.) lovers of money (philargyroi, #5366, "avarice"; cf. 1 Tim. 6:9-10).

3.) boastful (alazon, #213, "braggard:-boaster").

4.) arrogant (huperephanos, #5244, "haughty:-proud").

5.) revilers (blasphemos, #989, "speaking evil, slanderous, reproachful, railing, abusive").

6.) disobedient to parents (apeithes, #545, "impersuasible, not compliant, disobedient, contumacious").

7.) ungrateful (acharistos, #884, "ungracious, unpleasing, unthankful").

8.) unholy (anosios, #462, "impious, wicked").

9.) unloving (astorgos, #794, "without natural affection, unsociable, cf. Rom 1:31 marg., inhuman, cf. 2Ti. 3:3 RSV, unloving, cf. 2Ti. 3:3 NKJV").

10.) irreconcilable (aspondos, #786, "implacable, trucebreakers").

11.) malicious gossips (diabolos, #1228, "devil, false accuser, slanderer").

12.) without self-control (akrates, #193, "incontinent, intemperate").

13.) brutal (anemeros, #434, "not tame, savage, fierce, not civilized").

14.) haters of good (aphilagathos, #865, "despiser of those that are good; opposed to goodness and good men").

15.) treacherous (prodotai, #4272, "disposed toward betrayal, traitor").

16.) reckless (propetes, #4312, "precipitate, rash, heady").

17.) conceited (tuphoo, #5187, "puffed up, beclouded, besotted").

18.) lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God (philedonos, #5369, "loving pleasure").

19.) holding to a form of godliness, although they denied its power (morphosis, #3446, "the mere form, semblance"; eusebeia, #2150, "reverence, respect, piety towards God, godliness"; dunamis, #1411, "power, mighty work, strength, miracle, might, virtue, mighty").