2 Timothy 3

1 Now understand this: In the last days there will be grievous times;

But know this, that in the last days terrible times will come.

2 because people will be self-lovers, money lovers, boasters, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

3 without family affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,

unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, hateful of good,

4 betrayers, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

5 wearing a form of godliness while having denied its power! You must avoid such people;

holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof. Turn away from these, also.

6 because they are the sort that press into households and ‘capture’ gullible women loaded down with sins, who are led along by various lusts,

For among them are those who crawl into households and take captive weak-willed women weighed down with sins, led away by various passions and pleasures,

7 always learning yet never being able to come to a real knowledge of truth.

always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these oppose the truth—men of depraved mind, disqualified as regards the faith—

Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; people corrupted in mind, disapproved concerning the faith.

9 but they will not advance any further because, as in the case of the former, their folly will become evident to all.

But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all, as theirs also was.

10 You, however, have carefully followed my doctrine, my lifestyle, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance;

But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

11 the persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra—what persecutions I endured; yet the Lord delivered me out of them all.

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.

12 In fact, any one who desires to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted;

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Messiah Jesus will suffer persecution.

13 while malignant men and imposters will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

But evil people and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

14 But you, continue in the things you have learned and to which you were committed, knowing from whom you learned,

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

15 and that from infancy you have known the Sacred Scriptures which are able to make you wise into salvation through the faith that is in Christ Jesus.

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Messiah Jesus.

16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is valuable for teaching, for reproving, for correcting, for training in righteousness,

All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

17 so that the man of God may be fully competent, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

that the person of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.