2 Timothy 3:1–17

Perilous Times and Perilous Men

3But know this, that ^ain the last days ¹perilous times will come: ²For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ³unloving, ²unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, ^4btraitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, ^5chaving a form of godliness but ^ddenying its power. And ^efrom such people turn away! ⁶For ^fof this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, ⁷always learning and never able ^gto come to the knowledge of the truth. ^8hNow as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: ⁱmen of corrupt minds, ^jdisapproved concerning the faith; ⁹but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, ^kas theirs also was.

The Man of God and the Word of God

^10lBut you have carefully followed my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, perseverance, ¹¹persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me ^mat Antioch, ⁿat Iconium, ^oat Lystra—what persecutions I endured. And ^pout of them all the Lord delivered me. ¹²Yes, and ^qall who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. ^13rBut evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. ¹⁴But you must ^scontinue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, ¹⁵and that from childhood you have known ^tthe Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

^16uAll Scripture is given by inspiration of God, ^vand is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for ³instruction in righteousness, ^17wthat the man of God may be complete, ^xthoroughly equipped for every good work.