2 Timothy 3
1 But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come.
But know this: Hard times will come in the last days.
2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,
without natural affection, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, having no love for what is good,
4 traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
traitors, reckless, puffed up, and lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 holding a form of godliness but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
having a form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid such people.
6 For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
Among them are those who worm their way into houses and captivate vulnerable women who are overwhelmed with sins and swayed by various evil desires.
7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Such women are always learning yet never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected.
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these false teachers also oppose the truth. They are corrupted in mind and have proven themselves to be unqualified with respect to the faith.
9 But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.
But they will not make any further progress, for their folly will become obvious to everyone, just like the folly of Jannes and Jambres.
10 But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,
Yoʋ, however, have closely followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, and endurance.
11 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.
Yoʋ know how much persecution and suffering I endured in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. Yet the Lord rescued me from it all.
12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
Indeed, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
But evil people and imposters will become worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
14 But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.
But as for yoʋ, continue in what yoʋ have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom yoʋ have learned it,
15 From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
and how from childhood yoʋ have known the sacred writings, which are able to give yoʋ wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
16 Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
All Scripture is inspired by God and is beneficial for teaching, reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness,
17 that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
so that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.
