2 Timothy 3:1–13

But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.^{j 2}People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,^k boastful, proud,^l abusive,^m disobedient to their parents,ⁿ ungrateful, unholy, ³without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, ⁴treacherous,^o rash, conceited,^p lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—⁵having a form of godliness^q but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.^r

⁶They are the kind who worm their way^s into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, ⁷always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.^{t 8}Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses,^u so also these teachers oppose^v the truth. They are men of depraved minds,^w who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. ⁹But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men,^x their folly will be clear to everyone.

A Final Charge to Timothy

¹⁰You, however, know all about my teaching,^y my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, ¹¹persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch,^z Iconium^a and Lystra,^b the persecutions I endured.^c Yet the Lord rescued^d me from all of them.^{e 12}In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,^{f 13}while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse,^g deceiving and being deceived.^h