2 Timothy 3
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1But know this: Difficult times will come in the last days.1But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.
2For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,2For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,3heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,
4traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 4treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5holding to the form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people! 5having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
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,6For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,
7always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.7always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
8Just as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so these also resist the truth, men who are corrupt in mind, worthless in regard to the faith. 8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith.
9But they will not make further progress, for their lack of understanding will be clear to all, as theirs was also. 9But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.
10But you have followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, and endurance, 10You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,
11along with the persecutions and sufferings that came to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from them all. 11my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me.
12In fact, all those who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.12Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
13Evil people and impostors will become worse, deceiving and being deceived. 13while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
14But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed. You know those who taught you,14But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it
15and you know that from childhood you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 15and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
16All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness, 16All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
17so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. 17that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
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