3:1   But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

3:2   For men will love themselves, become lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

3:3   unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,

3:4   treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

3:5   holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.

3:6   For among them we count those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,

3:7   always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

3:8   Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.

3:9  But they will not make further progress; for their folly will appear obvious to all, just as Jannes's and Jambres's folly became evident.

3:10  Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance,

3:11   persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me!

3:12  Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

3:13   But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and becoming deceived.

3:14   You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them,

3:15   and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which have the capacity to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which dwells in Christ Jesus.

3:16   All Scripture receives inspiration by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;

3:17   so that the man of God may become adequate, equipped for every good work.