1 Timothy 4:2
New International Version
Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.

New Living Translation
These people are hypocrites and liars, and their consciences are dead.

English Standard Version
through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,

Berean Standard Bible
influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.

Berean Literal Bible
in the hypocrisy of liars, having been seared in the own conscience,

King James Bible
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

New King James Version
speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron,

New American Standard Bible
by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron,

NASB 1995
by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron,

NASB 1977
by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron,

Legacy Standard Bible
by the hypocrisy of liars, who have been seared in their own conscience,

Amplified Bible
[misled] by the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared as with a branding iron [leaving them incapable of ethical functioning],

Christian Standard Bible
through the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
through the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared.

American Standard Version
through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
These persons who deceive by false appearances and speak lies and sear their consciences;

Contemporary English Version
They will also be fooled by the false claims of liars whose consciences have lost all feeling. These liars

Douay-Rheims Bible
Speaking lies in hypocrisy, and having their conscience seared,

English Revised Version
through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
These people will speak lies disguised as truth. Their consciences have been scarred as if branded by a red-hot iron.

Good News Translation
Such teachings are spread by deceitful liars, whose consciences are dead, as if burnt with a hot iron.

International Standard Version
and the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences have been burned by a hot iron.

Literal Standard Version
speaking lies in hypocrisy, being seared in their own conscience,

Majority Standard Bible
influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.

New American Bible
through the hypocrisy of liars with branded consciences.

NET Bible
influenced by the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared.

New Revised Standard Version
through the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.

New Heart English Bible
through the hypocrisy of liars, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

Webster's Bible Translation
Speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

Weymouth New Testament
through the hypocrisy of men who teach falsely and have their own consciences seared as with a hot iron;

World English Bible
through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron,

Young's Literal Translation
in hypocrisy speaking lies, being seared in their own conscience,

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Context
Warnings against False Teachers
1Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons, 2influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron. 3They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.…

Cross References
1 Kings 13:18
Then the prophet replied, "I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, 'Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.'" The old prophet was lying to him,

Jeremiah 23:26
How long will this continue in the hearts of these prophets who prophesy falsehood, these prophets of the delusion of their own minds?

Ephesians 4:19
Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.


Treasury of Scripture

Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

lies.

1 Kings 13:18
He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.

1 Kings 22:22
And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.

Isaiah 9:15
The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

their.

Romans 1:28
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Ephesians 4:19
Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

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1 Timothy 4
1. He foretells that in the latter times there shall be a departure from the faith.
6. And to the end that Timothy might not fail in doing his duty, he furnishes him with various precepts.














(2) Speaking lies in hypocrisy.--The Greek words here should be translated, through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies. The lies that these men utter, refer to their teaching that it was pleasing to the eye of the All-seeing Creator for men and women to avoid certain meats, and to abstain from marriage. Their hypocrisy consisted in their assumption of a mask of holiness, which holiness they considered was derived from their false asceticism and their abstinence from things which the Apostle proceeded to show were lawful.

Having their conscience seared with a hot iron.--Better rendered, Branded in their own con-science as with a hot iron. The image is drawn from the practice of branding slaves and certain criminals on their forehead with a mark. "Qua nota turpitudinis non inusta tua vita est?" (Cic. Cat. i. 6.) These men tried to teach the efficacy of a substitution of certain counsels of perfection in place of a faithful loving life. They based their teaching on wild Oriental speculations about the evil nature of all matter. They were often themselves evil-livers, who, conscious of their own stained, scarred lives, strove with a show of outward sanctity and hypocritical self-denial to beguile and to lead astray others, and in the end to make them as vile as themselves.

Verse 2. - Through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies for speaking lies in hypocrisy, A.V.; branded in their own conscience as with for having their conscience seared with, A.V. Through the hypocrisy of men, etc. The construction is rather obscure, as the most obvious way of construing is that of the A.V., where ψευδόλογων must agree with δαιμονίων. But then the clause, "having their conscience seared with a hot iron," does not suit "devils." It is therefore, perhaps, best to translate the clause as the R.V. does, and to explain, with Bishop Ellicott, that the preposition ἐν, which precedes ὑποκρίσει, defines the instrument by which they were led to give heed to seducing spirits, viz. the hypocritical preterites of the men who spake lies, and whose consciences were seared. If ψευδολόγων agrees with δαιμονίων, we must conceive that St. Paul passes insensibly from "the devils" to the false teachers who spake as they taught them. In the Gospels, the speech of the devils, and of those possessed by devils, is often interchanged, as e.g., Luke 4:33, 34, 41; Mark 1:23, 24. Men that speak lies (ψευδολόγω); only found here in the New Testament, but occasionally in classical Greek. Branded (κεκαυτηριασμένων); here only in the New Testament, but used in Greek medical and other writers for "to brand," or "cauterize;" καυτήρ and καυτήριον, a branding-iron. The application of the image is somewhat uncertain. If the idea is that of "a brand," a mark burnt in upon the forehead of a slave or criminal, then the meaning is that these men have their own infamy stamped upon their own consciences. It is not patent only to others, but to themselves also. But if the metaphor is from the cauterizing a wound, as the A.V. takes it, then the idea is that these men's consciences are become as insensible to the touch as the skin that has been cauterized is. The metaphor, in this case, is somewhat similar to that of πωρόω πώρωσις (Mark 3:5; Mark 6:52; John 12:40, etc.). The latter interpretation seems to suit the general context best, and the medical use of the term, which St. Paul might have learnt from Luke. The emphasis of τῆς ἰδίας, "their own conscience," implies that they were not merely deceivers of others, but were self-deceived.

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Greek
influenced by
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

[the] hypocrisy
ὑποκρίσει (hypokrisei)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 5272: From hupokrinomai; acting under a feigned part, i.e. deceit.

of liars,
ψευδολόγων (pseudologōn)
Adjective - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 5573: False-speaking, speaking lies. From pseudes and lego; mendacious, i.e. Promulgating erroneous Christian doctrine.

[whose]
ἰδίαν (idian)
Adjective - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2398: Pertaining to self, i.e. One's own; by implication, private or separate.

consciences
συνείδησιν (syneidēsin)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 4893: The conscience, a persisting notion. From a prolonged form of suneido; co-perception, i.e. Moral consciousness.

are seared with a hot iron.
κεκαυστηριασμένων (kekaustēriasmenōn)
Verb - Perfect Participle Middle or Passive - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 2743: To cauterize, burn with a hot iron; hence met: I sear. From a derivative of kaio; to brand, i.e. to render unsensitive.


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