2 Timóteo 3

¹ I WOULD have you know this, that in the last days trying times will come;

² for people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boasters, haughty, abusive, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, profane,

³ without family affection, relentless, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,

⁴ treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.

⁵ They will have a form of religion, but will cast off its power. Avoid such people.

⁶ For of this class are those who make their way into houses and take captive weak women loaded with sins, led by varying passions,

⁷ always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

⁸ Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men oppose the truth, depraved in mind, proved to be worthless as regards the faith.

⁹ But they will go no further, for their folly will be manifest to all as that of Jannes and Jambres became.

¹⁰ But you have kept track of my teaching, my course of life, my purpose, my faith, my slowness to anger, my love, my patience,

¹¹ my persecutions, my sufferings '97 what happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, Lystra, what persecutions I underwent. But the Lord delivered me out of all of them.

¹² And all who are determined to live religiously in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

¹³ Wicked men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

¹⁴ But you must stand by what you learned and were persuaded of, knowing from whom you learned it

¹⁵ and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which can give you wisdom to gain salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

¹⁶ All Scripture is divinely inspired and is useful for teaching, for proof, for correction of error, for education in righteousness,

¹⁷ that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.