2 Timothy 3
1 Be aware that there will be troubled times in the last days.
But know this, that in the last days terrible times will come.
2 People will love themselves and love money. They will be boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, and without God in their lives.
For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Heartless and unforgiving, they'll commit slander and have no self-control. Brutal people who hate what's good,
unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, hateful of good,
4 they will betray others and be totally thoughtless. They are absurdly full of themselves, living so much for pleasure that they don't care about loving God.
treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
5 They may give an outward impression of being religious, but they don't actually believe it works. Stay away from these people!
holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof. Turn away from these, also.
6 They're the kind of people that slip into homes and take control of vulnerable women who are burdened down by the guilt of sin and distracted by all kinds of desires.
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 These women are always trying to learn but they're never able to understand the truth!
always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Just like Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, these teachers also oppose the truth. They are people with corrupted minds whose supposed trust in God is a lie.
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 won't get far. Their stupidity will be obvious to everyone, just like that of Jannes and Jambres.
But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all, as theirs also was.
10 But you know all about my teaching and behavior, and my aim in life. You know my trust in God and my love. You know what I've had to endure—
But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,
11 how I've been persecuted and what I've suffered. You know what happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—the troubles I had and how the Lord rescued me from all of them.
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 Of course it's true that everyone who wants to live a life devoted to God in Christ Jesus will experience persecution,
Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Messiah Yeshua will suffer persecution.
13 while wicked people and frauds will do well, going from bad to worse, deceiving others and deceiving themselves too.
But evil people and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
14 But you must hold onto the things you've learned and are convinced are true. You know who taught you.
But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.
15 From your childhood you've known the holy Scriptures which can give you understanding for salvation by trusting 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 Yeshua.
16 All Scripture inspired by God is useful for teaching, for confronting what is wrong, for setting us straight, and for telling us what is right.
All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
17 This is how God provides a thorough preparation for those who work for him to accomplish all that's good.
that the person of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
