2 Timothy 3
1 But of this be assured: in the last days grievous times will set in.
But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come.
2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, profane. They will be disobedient to parents, thankless, irreligious,
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 destitute of natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers. They will have no self-control, but will be brutal, opposed to goodness,
without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,
4 treacherous, headstrong, self-important. They will love pleasure instead of loving God,
traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 and will keep up a make-believe of piety and yet live in defiance of its power. Turn away from people of this sort.
holding a form of godliness but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
6 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,
For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
7 and are always learning something new, and yet are never able to arrive at real knowledge of the truth.
always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 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.
Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected.
9 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.
But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.
10 But you have intimately known my teaching, life, aims, faith, patience, love, resignation,
But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,
11 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.
persecutions, and sufferings—those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.
12 And indeed every one who is determined to live a godly life as a follower of Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
13 But bad men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, misleading and being misled.
But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
14 But you must cling to the things which you have learnt and have been taught to believe, knowing who your teachers were,
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 writings which are able to make you wise to obtain salvation through faith 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 Christ Jesus.
16 Every Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for convincing, for correction of error, and for instruction in right doing;
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
17 so that the man of God may himself be complete and may be perfectly equipped for every good work.
that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
