Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy - Chapter 3

^3:1But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. ^3:2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ^3:3without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, ^3:4traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; ^3:5holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof. Turn away from these, also. ^3:6For of these are those who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, ^3:7always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. ^3:8Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith. ^3:9But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be. ^3:10But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness, ^3:11persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. Out of them all the Lord delivered me. ^3:12Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. ^3:13But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. ^3:14But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them. ^3:15From infancy, you have known the sacred writings which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus. ^3:16Every writing inspired by God is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction which is in righteousness, ^3:17that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.