2 Timothy 3:1–13

“Difficult Times Will Come”

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

²For men will be ^alovers of self, ^blovers of money, ^cboastful, arrogant, ^drevilers, disobedient to parents, ^eungrateful, ^funholy,

^3aunloving, irreconcilable, ^bmalicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, ^1chaters of good,

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

⁵holding to a form of ^1agodliness, although they have ^bdenied its power; ^cAvoid such men as these.

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

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

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

⁹But they will not make further progress; for their ^afolly will be obvious to all, just ^bas ¹Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also.

¹⁰Now 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.