2Ti3:1 You must understand this, that in the last days distressing times will come.
2Ti3:2 For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
2Ti3:3 inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, brutes, haters of good,
2Ti3:4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
2Ti3:5 holding to the outward form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid them!
2Ti3:6 For among them are those who make their way into households and captivate silly women, overwhelmed by their sins and swayed by all kinds of desires,
2Ti3:7 who are always being instructed and can never arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
2Ti3:8 As Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these people, of corrupt mind and counterfeit faith, also oppose the truth.
2Ti3:9 But they will not make much progress, because, as in the case of those two men, their folly will become plain to everyone.
2Ti3:10 Now you have observed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,
2Ti3:11 my persecutions and suffering the things that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
2Ti3:12 Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
2Ti3:13 But wicked people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived.
2Ti3:14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it,
2Ti3:15 and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
2Ti3:16 All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
2Ti3:17 so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work.