2 Timothy 3

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition	New Jerusalem Bible
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.