2 Timothy 3:3

without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,

Without natural affection ... This refers to the unnatural child which does not love the parents, or to mothers who do not love their children, or to any person without the basic affections which are the glue which holds the social order together. As Lipscomb said, "The affection here is common to every class of brutes; consequently, men and women without it are worse than brutes."[6]

Implacable ... is the attitude of a person unwilling to make a truce or to agree to peace under any circumstance, a vicious fighter who fights for the sheer enjoyment of it.

Slanderers ... The Greek word here is [@diabolos], one of the names of Satan, and has the literal meaning of "false-accusers."[7]

Without self-control ... Some of the older translations render this "incontinent," thus restricting the meaning to sexual laxity; but much more is meant. The persons noted here have no restraint or self-control in anything, none of their ambitions, passions, lusts, appetites or desires being under any discipline whatever.

Fierce ... is also rendered "savage."

No lovers of good ... The natural animosity of darkness against the light, of wickedness against righteousness, of error against truth, etc., is the mark of these. "The wolves always hate the sheep."

[6] David Lipscomb, New Testament Commentaries, 2Timothy (Nashville: The Gospel Advocate Company, 1976), p. 228.

[7] E. M. Zerr, Bible Commentary (Marion, Indiana: Cogdill Foundation, 1954), p. 194.