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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2 Timothy 3
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1Be aware that there will be troubled times in the last days. 2People will love themselves and love money. They will be boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, and without God in their lives. 3Heartless and unforgiving, they'll commit slander and have no self-control. Brutal people who hate what's good, 4they will betray others and be totally thoughtless. They are absurdly full of themselves, living so much for pleasure that they don't care about loving God. 5They may give an outward impression of being religious, but they don't actually believe it works. Stay away from these people!
6They're the kind of people that slip into homes and take control of vulnerable women who are burdened down by the guilt of sin and distracted by all kinds of desires. 7These women are always trying to learn but they're never able to understand the truth!
8Just like Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, these teachers also oppose the truth. They are people with corrupted minds whose supposed trust in God is a lie.#3:8. Or “whose trust in God is counterfeit.” 9But they won't get far. Their stupidity will be obvious to everyone, just like that of Jannes and Jambres.
10But you know all about my teaching and behavior, and my aim in life. You know my trust in God and my love. You know what I've had to endure— 11how I've been persecuted and what I've suffered. You know what happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—the troubles I had and how the Lord rescued me from all of them.
12Of course it's true that everyone who wants to live a life devoted to God in Christ Jesus will experience persecution, 13while wicked people and frauds will do well, going from bad to worse, deceiving others and deceiving themselves too. 14But you must hold onto the things you've learned and are convinced are true. You know who taught you. 15From your childhood you've known the holy Scriptures which can give you understanding for salvation by trusting in Christ Jesus. 16All Scripture inspired by God is useful for teaching, for confronting what is wrong, for setting us straight, and for telling us what is right. 17This is how God provides a thorough preparation for those who work for him to accomplish all that's good.
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