2 Timothy 3

Godlessness in the Last Days

¹But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.²For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,³heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,⁴treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,⁵having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.⁶For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,⁷always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.⁸Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith.⁹But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.

All Scripture Is Breathed Out by God

¹⁰You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,¹¹my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me.¹²Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,¹³while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.¹⁴But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it¹⁵and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.¹⁶All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,¹⁷that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.