2 Timothy 3

NEW JERUSALEM	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 You may be quite sure that in the last days there will be some difficult times.	1 But understand this: there will be terrifying times in the last days.
2 People wil be self-centred and avaricious, boastful, arrogant and rude; disobedient to their parents,ungrateful, irreligious;	2 People will be self-centered and lovers of money, proud, haughty, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreligious,
3 heartless and intractable; they wil be slanderers, profligates, savages and enemies of everything that isgood;	3 callous, implacable, slanderous, licentious, brutal, hating what is good,
4 they wil be treacherous and reckless and demented by pride, preferring their own pleasure to God.	4 traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers 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 as they make a pretense of religion but deny its power. Reject them.
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 some of these slip into homes and make captives of women weighed down by sins, led by various desires,
7 always seeking learning, but unable ever to come to knowledge of the truth.	7 always trying to learn but never able to reach a 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 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 be able to go on much longer: their fol y, like that of the other two, must become obviousto everybody.	9 But they will not make further progress, for their foolishness will be plain to all, as it was with those two.
10 You, though, have followed my teaching, my way of life, my aims, my faith, my patience and my love,my perseverance	10 You have followed my teaching, way of life, purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance,
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, 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 But anybody who tries to live in devotion to Christ is certain to be persecuted;	12 In fact, all who want to live religiously in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
13 while these wicked impostors wil go from bad to worse, deceiving others, and themselves deceived.	13 But wicked people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceivers and deceived.
14 You must keep to what you have been taught and know to be true; remember who your teachers were,	14 But you, remain faithful to what you have learned and believed, because you know from whom you learned it,
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 that from infancy you have known (the) sacred scriptures, which are capable of giving you wisdom for salvation through faith 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 is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
17 This is how someone who is dedicated to God becomes ful y equipped and ready for any good work.	17 so that one who belongs to God may be competent, equipped for every good work.