2 Timothy 3

¹ But understand this: there will be terrifying times in the last days.

² People will be self-centered and lovers of money, proud, haughty, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreligious,

³ callous, implacable, slanderous, licentious, brutal, hating what is good,

⁴ traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

⁵ as they make a pretense of religion but deny its power. Reject them.

⁶ For some of these slip into homes and make captives of women weighed down by sins, led by various desires,

⁷ always trying to learn but never able to reach a knowledge of the truth.

⁸ Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so they also oppose the truth--people of depraved mind, unqualified in the faith.

⁹ But they will not make further progress, for their foolishness will be plain to all, as it was with those two.

¹⁰ You have followed my teaching, way of life, purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance,

¹¹ persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra, persecutions that I endured. Yet from all these things the Lord delivered me.

¹² In fact, all who want to live religiously in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

¹³ But wicked people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceivers and deceived.

¹⁴ But you, remain faithful to what you have learned and believed, because you know from whom you learned it,

¹⁵ and that from infancy you have known (the) sacred scriptures, which are capable of giving you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

¹⁶ All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

¹⁷ so that one who belongs to God may be competent, equipped for every good work.