2 Timothy 3

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  1. 1Understand this: in the last days, dangerous times will come.
  2. 2For people will be lovers of themselves, greedy, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, and unholy.
  3. 3They'll be without natural affection, trucebreakers, slanderous, lacking self-control, brutal, and despisers of those that are good.
  4. 4They'll be treacherous, reckless, swollen with pride — people who love pleasure more than they love God.
  5. 5They'll keep up an outward appearance of godliness but reject its real power. Stay away from people like that.
  6. 6For of this sort are those who sneak into houses and take captive foolish women burdened with sins, led away by various desires,
  7. 7women who are always trying to learn but never able to arrive at the knowledge of the truth.
  8. 8Now just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also resist the truth. They are men of corrupt minds, rejected concerning the faith.
  9. 9But they won't get very far, because their foolishness will become obvious to everyone — just as it did with Jannes and Jambres.
  10. 10You, however, have closely followed my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, and my endurance.
  11. 11Persecutions and afflictions that came upon me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra; what persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord delivered me from all of them.
  12. 12Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
  13. 13But evil people and deceivers will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.
  14. 14But you — hold firmly to what you've learned and become convinced of, because you know who taught you these things.
  15. 15Since childhood you've known the holy Scriptures, which have the power to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
  16. 16All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
  17. 17so that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
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