2 Timothy 3

1 But know this: In the last days there will be difficult times.

But of this be assured: in the last days grievous times will set in.

2 For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, and unholy.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, profane. They will be disobedient to parents, thankless, irreligious,

3 They will be without natural affection, unable to reconcile, slanderers, without self-control, violent, not lovers of good.

destitute of natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers. They will have no self-control, but will be brutal, opposed to goodness,

4 They will be betrayers, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.

treacherous, headstrong, self-important. They will love pleasure instead of loving God,

5 They will have a shape of godliness, but they will deny its power. Turn away from these people.

and will keep up a make-believe of piety and yet live in defiance of its power. Turn away from people of this sort.

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.

Among them are included the men who make their way into private houses and carry off weak women as their prisoners--women who, weighed down by the burden of their sins, are led by ever-changing caprice,

7 These women are always learning, but they are never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

and are always learning something new, and yet are never able to arrive at real knowledge of the 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.

And just as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also these false teachers withstand the truth--being, as they are, men of debased intellects, and of no real worth so far as faith is concerned.

9 But they will not advance very far. For their foolishness will be obvious to all, just like that of those men.

But they will have no further success; for their folly will be as clearly manifest to all men, as that of the opponents of Moses came to be.

10 But as for you, you have followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,

But you have intimately known my teaching, life, aims, faith, patience, love, resignation,

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.

and the persecutions and sufferings which I have endured; the things which happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra. You know the persecutions I endured, and how the Lord delivered me out of them all.

12 All those who want to live in a godly manner in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

And indeed every one who is determined to live a godly life as a follower of Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

13 Evil people and impostors will go from bad to worse, leading others and themselves astray.

But bad men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, misleading and being misled.

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 you must cling to the things which you have learnt and have been taught to believe, knowing who your teachers were,

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 infancy you have known the sacred writings which are able to make you wise to obtain salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

16 All scripture has been inspired by God. It is profitable for doctrine, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness.

Every Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for convincing, for correction of error, and for instruction in right doing;

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

so that the man of God may himself be complete and may be perfectly equipped for every good work.