2Ti_3:5
(*Greek NT) ἔχοντες μόρφωσιν εὐσεβείας, τὴν δὲ δύναμιν αὐτῆς ἠρνημένοι . καὶ τούτους ἀποτρέπου .
(*Greek NT BYZ+) εχοντες G2192 V-PAP-NPM μορφωσιν G3446 N-ASF ευσεβειας G2150 N-GSF την G3588 T-ASF δε G1161 CONJ δυναμιν G1411 N-ASF αυτης G846 P-GSF ηρνημενοι G720 V-RNP-NPM και G2532 CONJ τουτους G3778 D-APM αποτρεπου G665 V-PMM-2S
(*Greek NT TR) εχοντες μορφωσιν ευσεβειας την δε δυναμιν αυτης ηρνημενοι και τουτους αποτρεπου
(Greek NT TR+) εχοντες G2192 V-PAP-NPM μορφωσιν G3446 N-ASF ευσεβειας G2150 N-GSF την G3588 T-ASF δε G1161 CONJ δυναμιν G1411 N-ASF αυτης G846 P-GSF ηρνημενοι G720 V-RNP-NPM και G2532 CONJ τουτους G3778 D-APM αποτρεπου G665 V-PMM-2S
(*Greek NT WH+) εχοντες G2192 V-PAP-NPM μορφωσιν G3446 N-ASF ευσεβειας G2150 N-GSF την G3588 T-ASF δε G1161 CONJ δυναμιν G1411 N-ASF αυτης G846 P-GSF ηρνημενοι G720 V-RNP-NPM και G2532 CONJ τουτους G3778 D-APM αποτρεπου G665 V-PMM-2S
King James Version This is the 1769(KJV) Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away .
(KJV+) Having G2192 a form G3446 of godliness, G2150 but G1161 denying G720 the G3588 power G1411 thereof: G846 from such turn away . G665 G5128
(YLT) having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,
Latin Vulgate
Jerome's Latin Vulgate This is the 409(Latin) habentes speciem quidem pietatis virtutem autem eius abnegantes et hos devita
Portuguese João Ferreira de Almeida Atualizada Published in 1877(Portuguese JFAA) tendo forma de piedade, negando-lhe, entretanto, o poder . Foge também destes .
(*Portuguese JFAC) tendo aparência de piedade, mas negando a eficácia dela . Destes afasta-te .
(NVI) tendo aparência de piedade, mas negando o seu poder. Afaste-se também destes.
Spanish Reina-Valera Published in 1909(Spanish RV) Teniendo apariencia de piedad, mas habiendo negado la eficacia de ella: y á éstos evita .
(*Spanish RV+) Teniendo G2192 apariencia G3446 de piedad G2150, mas G1161 habiendo negado G720 la G3588 eficacia G1411 de ellaG846: y á éstos G5128 evita G665 .(*
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge
by Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others, with introduction by R. A. Torrey. Published in 1834;a form: Isa_29:13, Isa_48:1-2, Isa_58:1-3; Eze_33:30-32; Mat_7:15, Mat_23:27-28; Rom_2:20-24; 1Ti_5:8; Tit_1:16
from: 2Ti_2:16, 2Ti_2:23; Rom_16:17-18; Eph_4:14; 2Th_3:6, 2Th_3:14; 1Ti_6:5; Tit_3:10; 2Jn_1:10-12
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
1882-1921;2Ti_3:5
having a form of godliness] The word for form is strictly formation, its ending implying process rather than result, the producing of the form; hence in Rom_2:20 thou hast the ideally perfect presentation of knowledge and truth. The Jew believed that he had in the law the sole embodiment, the forming, of knowledge and truth, that he could give to knowledge and truth their right form, and so was the proper teacher of the world. Gifford. So here holding to a presentment of godliness; full profession though there is little enough of the substance; still making out that there is the real nature of godliness. The stress lies on the making out, the representation, whether as here the inner reality is absent or as Rom_2:20 present. Similarly a professor of divinity is credited with exhibiting real truth and knowledge; not so a religious professor. Compare too our Lords I will profess to you I never knew you, Mat_7:23, with the account of the defiled and unbelieving who profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, Tit_1:16. The Greek word for form, of which our word is the causative process, means embodied substance, standing between unclothed essence and unsubstantial appearance; see Lightfoot, Revision of N.T. p. 77.
denying the power thereof] The power lies in the production of works as in Tit_1:16. Cf. Bp Bull to deny the power of godliness is for a man by indecent and vicious actions to contradict his outward show or profession of godliness Serm. xv. p. 376 (Oxf. 1846). The force of the perfect pass, participle is noted 2Ti_2:25 living in denial of its power.
from such turn away] The conjunction emphasises the such, but not without affecting also the verb turn away, cf. 2Ti_3:9; offenders of the first degree try to win back; but from these men, hardened in error, make it your habit to turn away, see 2Ti_3:1. In harmony with this direction is the conduct of St John at Ephesus some 10 or 15 years later, according to the tradition. John, the disciple of the Lord, going to bathe at Ephesus, and perceiving Cerinthus within, rushed out of the bathhouse without bathing, crying out, Let us fly, lest even the bathhouse fall on us, because Cerinthus the enemy of the truth is within (Iren. iii. iii. 4). Epiphanius substitutes Ebion for Cerinthus. Both Cerinthus and the Ebionites denied the reality of the Incarnation. Plummer, St John (Gosp.), Introduction, p. 15.
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown Commentary
A Commentary, Critical and Explanatory, on the Old and New Testaments. Published in 1871; 2 Timothy 3:5
form outward semblance.
godliness piety.
denying rather as Greek, having denied, that is, renounced.
the power the living, regenerating, sanctifying influence of it.
turn away implying that some of such characters, forerunners of the last days, were already in the Church.