2 Timothy 3

CHAPTER 3

Difficult Times Will Come

¹But know this, that ^ain the last days difficult times will come.

²For men will be ^alovers of self, ^blovers of money, ^cboastful, ^darrogant, ^eblasphemers, ^fdisobedient to parents, ^gungrateful, ^hunholy,

^3aunloving, irreconcilable, ^1bmalicious gossips, without self-control, without gentleness, ^cwithout love for good,

^4atreacherous, ^breckless, ^cconceited, ^dlovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

⁵holding to a form of ^1agodliness, but having ^bdenied its power. ^cKeep away from such men as these.

⁶For among them are those who ^1aenter into households and take captive ^2bweak women weighed down with sins, being led on by ^cvarious desires,

⁷always learning and never able to ^acome to the ¹full knowledge of the truth.

⁸Just as ^aJannes and Jambres ^bopposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, ^cmen of depraved mind, disqualified in regard to the faith.

⁹But they will not make further progress, for their ^afolly will be obvious to all, just ^bas theirs was also.

¹⁰But you ^afollowed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, ^blove, ¹perseverance,

^11apersecutions, and ^bsufferings, such as happened to me at ^cAntioch, at ^dIconium, and at ^eLystra. What ^fpersecutions I endured, and out of them all ^gthe Lord rescued me!

¹²Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus ^awill be persecuted.

¹³But evil men and impostors ^awill proceed from bad to worse, ^bdeceiving and being deceived.

¹⁴But you, ^acontinue in the things you learned and became convinced of, knowing from whom you learned them,

¹⁵and that ^afrom childhood you have known ^bthe sacred writings which are able to ^cmake you wise unto ^dsalvation through faith which is in ^eChrist Jesus.

^16aAll Scripture is ¹God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for ²training in righteousness,

¹⁷so that ^athe man of God may be equipped, having been ^bthoroughly equipped for every good work.