2 Timothy 3

¹ But understand this: in the last days there will be terrible times.

² People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

³ without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, hostile to good,

⁴ treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—

⁵ having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.

⁶ They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over vulnerable women, who are loaded down with sins and swayed by all kinds of desires,

⁷ always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.

⁸ Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth—people of corrupt mind, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected.

⁹ But they will not get very far, because their folly will be plain to everyone, as was the folly of those two.

¹⁰ You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,

¹¹ my persecutions, my sufferings—the things that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

¹² In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

¹³ while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

¹⁴ But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, because you know those from whom you learned it,

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.

¹⁶ All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, and for training in righteousness,

¹⁷ so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.