2 Timothy 3
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Difficult Times in the Last Days
1 But know this, that there will be difficult times in the last days, 2 for men* will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 devoid of affection, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, without love of good, 4 betrayers, reckless, inflated with arrogance, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness, but denying its power. Turn away from these people. 6 For among them are those who surreptitiously enter households and captivate weak women weighed down by sins and led away by diverse passions, 7 always learning and never able to arrive at the knowledge of the truth. 8 And just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these ones oppose the truth—men corrupted in mind, rejected concerning the faith. 9 But they will not advance further, for their foolishness will be plainly exposed to everyone, just as that of those two men* was.
The Man of God and the Scripture
10 But you have closely followed my teaching, way of life, purpose, faith, patience, love,* endurance, 11 persecutions, sufferings, such as happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, and in Lystra—what sort of persecutions I endured. Yet from them all the Lord rescued me. 12 And indeed, all who want to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. 13 But evil men and impostors will advance towards the worse condition, deceiving and being deceived. 14 You, however, continue in the things which you have learned and have been convinced of, because you know from whom you learned them, 15 and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness, 17 so that the man of God* may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.
Notes
2 Or people, as the term is generically understood. So also vv. 8,13
9 The noun phrase two men is supplied to the text on contextual considerations for the sake of clarity
10 One ancient Greek manuscript omits the word love
17 Or the servant of God, as the expression the man of God is derived from the Old Testament, where it usually refers to the servant of God
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