2 Timothy 3

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition	NEW JERUSALEM
1 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress.	1 You may be quite sure that in the last days there will be some difficult times.
2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,	2 People wil be self-centred and avaricious, boastful, arrogant and rude; disobedient to their parents,ungrateful, irreligious;
3 inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, fierce, haters of good,	3 heartless and intractable; they wil be slanderers, profligates, savages and enemies of everything that isgood;
4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, 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 holding the form of religion but denying the power of it. Avoid such people.	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 among them are those who make their way into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and swayed by various impulses,	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 who will listen to anybody and can never arrive at a knowledge of the truth.	7 always seeking learning, but unable ever to come to knowledge of the truth.
8 As Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of corrupt mind and counterfeit 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 get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.	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 Now you have observed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,	10 You, though, have followed my teaching, my way of life, my aims, my faith, my patience and my love,my perseverance
11 my persecutions, my sufferings, what befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra, what persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued 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 Indeed all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,	12 But anybody who tries to live in devotion to Christ is certain to be persecuted;
13 while evil men and impostors will go on 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 as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing 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 how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings which are able to instruct you 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 profitable for teaching, for reproof, 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 that the man of God may be complete, 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.