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1You must realize, however, that in the last days difficult times will come. | 1This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. |
2People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, | 2For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, |
3unfeeling, uncooperative, slanderous, degenerate, brutal, hateful of what is good, | 3Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, |
4traitors, reckless, conceited, and lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. | 4Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; |
5They will hold to an outward form of godliness but deny its power. Stay away from such people. | 5Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. |
6For some of these men go into homes and deceive foolish women who are burdened with sins and swayed by all kinds of desires. | 6For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, |
7These women are always studying but are never able to arrive at a full knowledge of the truth. | 7Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. |
8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and their faith is a counterfeit. | 8Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. |
9But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those two men, their stupidity will be plain to everyone. | 9But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was. |
10But you have observed my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance, | 10But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, |
11and how I was persecuted and suffered in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. | 11Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me. |
12Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in union with the Messiah Jesus will be persecuted. | 12Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. |
13But evil people and impostors will go from bad to worse as they deceive others and are themselves deceived. | 13But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. |
14But as for you, continue in what you have learned and found to be true, because you know from whom you learned it. | 14But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; |
15From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures that are able to give you the wisdom you need for salvation through faith in the Messiah Jesus. | 15And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. |
16All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, | 16All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: |
17so that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good action. | 17That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. |
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