| 3.1 |
But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. |
| 3.2 |
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, |
| 3.3 |
without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good, |
| 3.4 |
traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; |
| 3.5 |
holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also. |
| 3.6 |
For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, |
| 3.7 |
always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. |
| 3.8 |
Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith, are rejected. |
| 3.9 |
But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be. |
| 3.10 |
But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness, |
| 3.11 |
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. |
| 3.12 |
Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. |
| 3.13 |
But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. |
| 3.14 |
But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them. |
| 3.15 |
From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus. |
| 3.16 |
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, |
| 3.17 |
that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. |
