2 Timothy 3
3
Many People Will Stop Loving God
1Remember this: There are some terrible times coming in the last days. 2People will love only themselves and money. They will be proud and boast about themselves. They will abuse others with insults. They will not obey their parents. They will be ungrateful and against all that is pleasing to God. 3They will have no love for others and will refuse to forgive anyone. They will talk about others to hurt them and will have no self-control. They will be cruel and hate what is good. 4People will turn against their friends. They will do foolish things without thinking and will be so proud of themselves. Instead of loving God, they will love pleasure. 5They will go on pretending to be devoted to God, but they will refuse to let that “devotion” change the way they live. Stay away from these people!
6Some of them go into homes and get control over weak women, whose lives are full of sin—women who are led into sin by all the things they want. 7These women always want to learn something new, but they are never able to fully understand the truth. 8Just as Jannes and Jambres#3:8 Jannes and Jambres Probably the magicians who opposed Moses in Pharaoh’s court. See Ex. 7:11-12, 22. fought against Moses, these people fight against the truth. Their thinking has been confused. The faith they have and teach is worthless. 9But they will not succeed in what they are trying to do. Everyone will see how foolish they are. That is what happened to Jannes and Jambres.
Last Instructions
10But you know all about me. You know what I teach and the way I live. You know my goal in life. You know my faith, my patience, and my love. You know that I never stop trying. 11You know about my persecutions and my sufferings. You know all the things that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra—the persecution I suffered in those places. But the Lord saved me from all of it. 12Everyone who wants to live showing true devotion to God in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. 13People who are evil and cheat others will become worse and worse. They will fool others, but they will also be fooling themselves.
14But you should continue following the teaching you learned. You know it is true, because you know you can trust those who taught you. 15You have known the Holy Scriptures#3:15 Holy Scriptures Writings that Jews and followers of Christ accepted to be from God—the Old Testament. since you were a child. These Scriptures are able to make you wise. And that wisdom leads to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16All Scripture is given by God. And all Scripture is useful for teaching and for showing people what is wrong in their lives. It is useful for correcting faults and teaching the right way to live. 17Using the Scriptures, those who serve God will be prepared and will have everything they need to do every good work.
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2 Timothy 3
3
Difficult Times Ahead
1But know this: Difficult times will come in the last days. # Jn 6:39; Php 1:6; 1Pt 1:5; 2Pt 3:3; Jd 18 2For people will be lovers of self, # Php 2:21; 1Tm 6:4 lovers of money, # Lk 16:14; 1Tm 3:3; 6:10 boastful, proud, # Pr 16:18; Lk 1:51; Rm 1:30 blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, # 1Tm 1:9 3unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, # Jn 14:6 without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good, # Ti 1:8 4traitors, # Lk 6:16; Ac 7:52 reckless, # Ac 19:36 conceited, # 1Tm 3:6; 6:4 lovers of pleasure # Php 3:19 rather than lovers of God, 5holding to the form of godliness but denying its power. # 1Co 4:20; 2Co 13:4; Ti 1:16 Avoid these people! # Mt 7:15; 2Th 3:6
6For among them are those who worm their way into households and capture idle women burdened down with sins, led along by a variety of passions, # 2Pt 1:4; 2:10 7always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. # 2Co 11:10; 1Tm 2:4; 2Tm 2:25; Ti 1:1 8Just as Jannes and Jambres # Ex 7:11-12; 8:18; 9:11 resisted Moses, # Ps 77:20; Mt 8:4; Heb 3:2 so these also resist the truth, men who are corrupt in mind, # 1Co 14:14; Php 4:7 worthless # 2Co 13:5-7 in regard to the faith. 9But they will not make further progress, for their lack of understanding will be clear to all, as theirs # = Jannes and Jambres was also.
Struggles in the Christian Life
10But you have followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, # Pr 19:21; Ac 11:23 faith, patience, love, # 1Co 13:1; 1Jn 4:16 and endurance, 11along with the persecutions and sufferings # Gl 5:24; Php 3:10 that came to me in Antioch, # Ac 13:14; 14:19,21 Iconium, # Ac 13:51; 16:2 and Lystra. # Ac 14:6,8; 27:5 What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from them all. 12In fact, all those who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. # Jn 15:20; Ac 14:22; 2Co 4:9-10 13Evil people and impostors will become worse, deceiving # Rv 20:10 and being deceived. 14But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed. You know those who taught you, # 2Tm 1:13 15and you know that from childhood you have known the sacred Scriptures, # Mt 26:54; 2Pt 1:20-21 which are able to give you wisdom for salvation # Ac 4:12; 2Co 7:10; Heb 5:9 through faith in Christ Jesus. 16All Scripture is inspired by God # Lit breathed out by God ; the Scripture is the product of God’s Spirit working through men; 2Pt 1:20-21. # 2Pt 1:20-21 and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness, 17so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. # 2Co 9:8; Gl 3:10; 1Tm 5:10; 2Tm 2:21
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