3:1 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: |
3:2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, |
3:3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, |
3:4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, |
3:5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! |
3:6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, |
3:7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. |
3:8 Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith; |
3:9 but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was. |
3:10 But you have carefully followed my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, perseverance, |
3:11 persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra—what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me. |
3:12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. |
3:13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. |
3:14 But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, |
3:15 and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. |
3:16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, |
3:17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. |