The Greek compound adjective aphilagathos combines the negative particle a-, philos (loving), and agathos (good), meaning "not loving what is good" or "without love for good." It appears only once in the New Testament (2 Timothy 3:3), in Paul's catalogue of vices characterizing people in the "last days."
Paul's vice list in 2 Timothy 3:1–5 reads as a diagnosis of cultural and moral collapse. Aphilagathos — "not loving the good" — may be the most fundamental of all these vices, since all virtue flows from loving what is truly good. When people stop loving what is genuinely good (God, truth, neighbor), all other virtues erode. Augustine identified this as the root of sin: disordered loves. Salvation is the reordering of love — learning to love God first, and all things rightly ordered to Him.