2 Timothy 3

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 You may be quite sure that in the last days there will be some difficult times.	1 Know also this, that, in the last days, shall come dangerous times.
2 People wil be self-centred and avaricious, boastful, arrogant and rude; disobedient to their parents,ungrateful, irreligious;	2 Men shall be lovers of themselves, covetous, haughty, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked,
3 heartless and intractable; they wil be slanderers, profligates, savages and enemies of everything that isgood;	3 Without affection, without peace, slanderers, incontinent, unmerciful, without kindness,
4 they wil be treacherous and reckless and demented by pride, preferring their own pleasure to God.	4 Traitors, stubborn, puffed up, and lovers of pleasures more than of God:
5 They wil keep up the outward appearance of religion but wil have rejected the inner power of it. Keepaway from people like that.	5 Having an appearance indeed of godliness, but denying the power thereof. Now these avoid.
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,	6 For of these sort are they who creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, who are led away with divers desires:
7 always seeking learning, but unable ever to come to knowledge of the truth.	7 Ever learning, and never attaining to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres defied Moses, so these men defy the truth, their minds corrupt and theirfaith spurious.	8 Now as Jannes and Mambres resisted Moses, so these also resist the truth, men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.
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.	9 But they shall proceed no farther; for their folly shall be manifest to all men, as theirs also was.
10 You, though, have followed my teaching, my way of life, my aims, my faith, my patience and my love,my perseverance	10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,
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.	11 Persecutions, afflictions: such as came upon me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra: what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord delivered me.
12 But anybody who tries to live in devotion to Christ is certain to be persecuted;	12 And all that will live godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution.
13 while these wicked impostors wil go from bad to worse, deceiving others, and themselves deceived.	13 But evil men and seducers shall grow worse and worse: erring, and driving into error.
14 You must keep to what you have been taught and know to be true; remember who your teachers were,	14 But continue thou in those things which thou hast learned, and which have been committed to thee: knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
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.	15 And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures, which can instruct thee to salvation, by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 Al scripture is inspired by God and useful for refuting error, for guiding people's lives and teachingthem to be upright.	16 All scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice,
17 This is how someone who is dedicated to God becomes ful y equipped and ready for any good work.	17 That the man of God may be perfect, furnished to every good work.