3:1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.
3:2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3:3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
3:4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God–
3:5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.
3:6 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires,
3:7 always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth.
3:8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth–men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected.
3:9 But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.
3:10 You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance,
3:11 persecutions, sufferings–what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
3:12 In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
3:13 while evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
3:14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it,
3:15 and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
3:16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
3:17 so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
3:1 But know this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
3:2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3:3 Without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, not lovers of good,
3:4 Traitors, reckless, blinded with pride, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
3:5 Having an outward form of godliness, though denying its power; from these also turn away.
3:6 For of these are those who creep into houses and take captive silly women heaped with sins, who are led by various desires
3:7 And are always learning yet never able to come to the full knowledge of the truth.
3:8 And in the manner that Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, disapproved concerning the faith.
3:9 But they will not advance farther, for their folly will be completely manifest to all, as also the folly of those became.
3:10 But you have closely followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, endurance,
3:11 Persecutions, sufferings, such as befell me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra. Such persecutions I bore, and out of them all the Lord delivered me.
3:12 And indeed all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
3:13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
3:14 But you, continue in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from which ones you have learned them
3:15 And that from a babe you have known the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
3:16 All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
3:17 That the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.