2 Timothy 3

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 But understand this: there will be terrifying times in the last days.	1 You may be quite sure that in the last days there will be some difficult times.
2 People will be self-centered and lovers of money, proud, haughty, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreligious,	2 People wil be self-centred and avaricious, boastful, arrogant and rude; disobedient to their parents,ungrateful, irreligious;
3 callous, implacable, slanderous, licentious, brutal, hating what is good,	3 heartless and intractable; they wil be slanderers, profligates, savages and enemies of everything that isgood;
4 traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,	4 they wil be treacherous and reckless and demented by pride, preferring their own pleasure to God.
5 as they make a pretense of religion but deny its power. Reject them.	5 They wil keep up the outward appearance of religion but wil have rejected the inner power of it. Keepaway from people like that.
6 For some of these slip into homes and make captives of women weighed down by sins, led by various desires,	6 Of the same kind, too, are those men who insinuate themselves into families in order to get influenceover sil y women who are obsessed with their sins and follow one craze after another,
7 always trying to learn but never able to reach a knowledge of the truth.	7 always seeking learning, but unable ever to come to 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.	8 Just as Jannes and Jambres defied Moses, so these men defy the truth, their minds corrupt and theirfaith spurious.
9 But they will not make further progress, for their foolishness will be plain to all, as it was with those two.	9 But they will not be able to go on much longer: their fol y, like that of the other two, must become obviousto everybody.
10 You have followed my teaching, way of life, purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance,	10 You, though, have followed my teaching, my way of life, my aims, my faith, my patience and my love,my perseverance
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.	11 and the persecutions and sufferings that came to me in places like Antioch, Iconium and Lystra -- althe persecutions I have endured; and the Lord has rescued me from every one of them.
12 In fact, all who want to live religiously in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.	12 But anybody who tries to live in devotion to Christ is certain to be persecuted;
13 But wicked people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceivers and deceived.	13 while these wicked impostors wil go from bad to worse, deceiving others, and themselves deceived.
14 But you, remain faithful to what you have learned and believed, because you know from whom you learned it,	14 You must keep to what you have been taught and know to be true; remember who your teachers were,
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.	15 and how, ever since you were a child, you have known the holy scriptures -from these you can learnthe wisdom that leads to 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,	16 Al scripture is inspired by God and useful for refuting error, for guiding people's lives and teachingthem to be upright.
17 so that one who belongs to God may be competent, equipped for every good work.	17 This is how someone who is dedicated to God becomes ful y equipped and ready for any good work.