2 Timothy 3

Difficult Times Ahead in the Last Days

3But know this, that in the last days difficult times will come, ²for people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³hardhearted, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, with no interest for what is good, ⁴traitors, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God, ⁵maintaining a form of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid these people. ⁶For from these are those who slip into houses and captivate foolish women loaded down with sins, led by various kinds of desires, ⁷always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. ⁸And just as^a Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these oppose the truth, people corrupted in mind, disqualified concerning the faith. ⁹But they will not progress to a greater extent, for their folly will be quite evident to everyone, as also the folly of those two was.

The Value of the Scriptures

¹⁰But you have faithfully followed my teaching, way of life, purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, ¹¹persecutions, and sufferings that happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, and in Lystra, what sort of persecutions I endured, and the Lord delivered me from all of them. ¹²And indeed, all those who want to live in a godly manner in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. ¹³But evil people and imposters will progress to the worse, deceiving and being deceived. ¹⁴But you continue in the things which you have learned and are convinced of, because you^* know from whom you learned them, ¹⁵and that from childhood you have known the holy writings that are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness, ¹⁷in order that the person of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.