2 Timothy 3
1 Know this: in the last days, difficult times will come.
2 For people will be selfish, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemous, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreverent;
3 without affection, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, enemies of what is good;
4 traitors, reckless, puffed up with pride, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
5 having an appearance of godliness but denying its power. Keep away from such people, too.
6 For among them are those who slip into homes and take captive weak women, burdened with sins and led by all kinds of desires.
7 They are always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these people oppose the truth. They are corrupt in mind and disqualified concerning the faith.
9 But they will not get very far, because their foolishness will become plain to everyone, as theirs did too.
10 But you have closely followed my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my perseverance;
11 my persecutions and sufferings, such as happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! And the Lord rescued me from them all.
12 In fact, all who want to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
13 But evil people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
14 But you, remain in what you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you learned it;
15 and how, from childhood, you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and useful for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness,
17 so that the person of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.
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