2 Timothy 3
1 But know this: In the last days there will be difficult times.
BUT this know, that in the last days distressing times will come.
2 For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, and unholy.
For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, vainglorious, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 They will be without natural affection, unable to reconcile, slanderers, without self-control, violent, not lovers of good.
unnatural, implacable, slanderers, intemperate, inhuman, averse to goodness,
4 They will be betrayers, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.
treacherous, wilful, puffed up with pride, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God;
5 They will have a shape of godliness, but they will deny its power. Turn away from these people.
holding the form of godliness, but denying the power of it: from these men turn with aversion.
6 For some of them are men who enter into households and captivate foolish women. These are women who are heaped up with sins and are led away by various desires.
For such are they who insinuate themselves into houses, and captivate weak women laden with accumulated sins, and actuated by a variety of passions,
7 These women are always learning, but they are never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
always learning, yet never able to attain unto the knowledge of truth.
8 In the same way that Jannes and Jambres stood against Moses, these false teachers also stand against the truth. They are men corrupt in mind, and with regard to the faith they are proven to be false.
But in the same manner as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also set themselves in opposition to the truth; men corrupt in mind, reprobate respecting the faith.
9 But they will not advance very far. For their foolishness will be obvious to all, just like that of those men.
But they shall not proceed to the uttermost; for their infatuation shall be evident to all men, as theirs also was.
10 But as for you, you have followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,
But thou hast fully known my doctrine, conduct, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, patience,
11 persecutions, sufferings, and what happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra. I endured persecutions. Out of them all, the Lord rescued me.
the persecutions, the sufferings, which beset me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, yet out of them all the Lord delivered me.
12 All those who want to live in a godly manner in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
And all indeed who will live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
13 Evil people and impostors will go from bad to worse, leading others and themselves astray.
But wicked men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and deceived.
14 But as for you, remain in the things that you have learned and have firmly believed. You know from whom you have learned.
But abide thou in the things which thou hast learned and believed, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
15 You know that from childhood you have known the sacred writings. These are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
and that from a child thou hast known the sacred writings, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Jesus Christ.
16 All scripture has been inspired by God. It is profitable for doctrine, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness.
All scripture is given by the inspiration of God, and advantageous for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness
17 This is so that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
that the man of God may be properly furnished, fully qualified for every good work.
