2 Timothy 3
1 Be sure of this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
But know this, that in the last days terrible times will come.
2 People will be selfish, mercenary, boastful, haughty, and blasphemous; disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, impure,
For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 incapable of affection, merciless, slanderous, wanting in self-control, brutal, careless of the right,
unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, hateful of good,
4 treacherous, reckless, and puffed up with pride; they will love pleasure more than they love God;
treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
5 and while they retain the outward form of religion, they will not allow it to influence them. Turn your back on such people as these.
holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof. Turn away from these, also.
6 For among them are to be found those who creep into homes and captivate weak women – women who, loaded with sins, and slaves to all kinds of passions,
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 are always learning, and yet never able to attain to a real knowledge of the truth.
always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these people, in their turn, oppose the truth. Their minds are corrupted, and, as regards the faith, they are utterly worthless.
Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; people corrupted in mind, disapproved concerning the faith.
9 They will not, however, make further progress; for their wicked folly will be plain to everyone, just as the folly Jannes and Jambres was.
But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all, as theirs also was.
10 But you, Timothy, were a close observer of my teaching, my conduct, my purposes, my faith, my forbearance, my love, and my patient endurance,
But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,
11 as well as of my persecutions, and of the sufferings which I met with at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. You know what persecutions I underwent; and yet the Lord brought me safe out of 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 Yes, and all who aim at living a religious life in union with Christ Jesus will have to suffer persecution;
Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Messiah Jesus will suffer persecution.
13 but wicked people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and deceived themselves.
But evil people and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
14 You, however, must stand by what you learnt and accepted as true. You know who they were from whom you learnt it;
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 your childhood, you have known the sacred writings, which can give you the wisdom that, through belief in Christ Jesus, leads to salvation.
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: helpful for teaching, for refuting error, for giving guidance, and for training others in righteousness;
All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
17 so that God’s people may be capable and equipped for good work of every kind.
that the person of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
