2Timothy - Chapter 3 | English Standard Version

  • 1. But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.
  • 2. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
  • 3. heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,
  • 4. treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
  • 5. having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
  • 6. For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,
  • 7. always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
  • 8. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith.
  • 9. But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.
  • 10. You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,
  • 11. my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra--which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me.
  • 12. Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
  • 13. while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
  • 14. But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it
  • 15. and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
  • 16. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
  • 17. that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
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