1 Timothy 4:2

1 Timothy 4:2

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

a. NLT: These people are hypocrites and liars, and their consciences are dead.

b. NIV: Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.

    

c. YLT: In hypocrisy speaking lies, being seared in their own conscience,

    

d. Amplified Bible Classic: Through the hypocrisy and pretensions of liars whose consciences are seared (cauterized),

e. Worrell Translation: In hypocrisy of men speaking lies, branded in their own conscience with a hot iron.

f. Wuest Translation: Doing this through hypocrisy of liars, branded in their own conscience.

1. “Speaking lies in hypocrisy…”

a. speaking lies [Strong: 5573 pseudologos psyoo-dol-og'-os from 5571 and 3004; mendacious, i.e. promulgating erroneous Christian doctrine:--speaking lies.]   pseudologos; pseudo-false; lego-to speak]

b. in [Strong: 1722 en, en; a primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively), i.e. a relation of rest (intermediate between 1519 and 1537); "in," at, (up-)on, by, etc.:--about, after, against, + almost, X altogether, among, X as, at, before, between, (here-)by (+ all means), for (... sake of), + give self wholly to, (here-)in(-to, -wardly), X mightily, (because) of, (up-)on, (open-)ly, X outwardly, one, X quickly, X shortly, (speedi-)ly, X that, X there(-in, -on), through(-out), (un-)to(-ward), under, when, where(-with), while, with(-in). Often used in compounds, with substantially the same import; rarely with verbs of motion, and then not to indicate direction, except (elliptically) by a separate (and different) preposition.]

c. hypocrisy [Strong: 5272 hupokrisis hoop-ok'-ree-sis from 5271; acting under a feigned part, i.e. (figuratively) deceit ("hypocrisy"):--condemnation, dissimulation, hypocrisy.] [Vines: primarily denotes a reply, an answer, play acting, as the actors spoke in dialogue, pretence.]

2. “…having their conscience seared with a hot iron.”

a. [having] their [Strong: 3588 ho ho, including the feminine he hay, and the neuter to to in all their inflections; the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom):--the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.]

b. conscience [Strong: 4893 suneidesis soon-i'-day-sis from a prolonged form of 4894; co-perception, i.e. moral consciousness:--conscience.] [Zodhiates: Conscience, to be one’s own witness, one’s own conscience coming forward as witness…to bear witness to one’s own conduct in a moral sense…that faculty of the soul which distinguishes between right and wrong and prompts one to choose the former and avoid the latter.]

c. seared [Strong: 2743 kauteriazo kow-tay-ree-ad'-zo from a derivative of 2545; to brand ("cauterize"), i.e. (by implication) to render unsensitive (figuratively):--sear with a hot iron.] [Zodhiates: To cauterize, brand with a hot iron.] [Vincent’s Word Studies: Volume 4, pp. 244, 245. The metaphor is from the practice of branding slaves or criminals, the latter on the brow. These deceivers are not acting under delusion, but deliberately, and against their conscience.]

1). As Christians when we deliberately walk in sin, we harden our heart and lose our heart’s sensitivity to hear the Holy Ghost speak to us. These teachers have long since lost that and now listen to devils and teach what they hear. Some of the doctrines they teach are shown in the next verse.