2 Timothy Chapter 3 Back Next{3:1} But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.
{3:2} For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
{3:3} without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
{3:4} traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
{3:5} holding a form of
godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
{3:6} For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take
captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various
lusts,
{3:7} always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
{3:8} Even as
Jannes and
Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith, are rejected.
{3:9} But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.
{3:10} But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,
{3:11} persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at
Antioch,
Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. Out of them all the Lord delivered me.
{3:12} Yes, and all who desire to live godly in
Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
{3:13} But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
{3:14} But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.
{3:15} From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.
{3:16}
Every Scripture is God-breathedthed and[<3] profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
{3:17} that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
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