2 Timothy 3
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1But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.1You must realize, however, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,2People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,3unfeeling, uncooperative, slanderous, degenerate, brutal, hateful of what is good,
4treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,4traitors, reckless, conceited, and lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.
5holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.5They will hold to an outward form of godliness but deny its power. Stay away from such people.
6For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,6For some of these men go into homes and deceive foolish women who are burdened with sins and swayed by all kinds of desires.
7always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.7These women are always studying but are never able to arrive at a full knowledge of the truth.
8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and their faith is a counterfeit.
9But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes's and Jambres's folly was also.9But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those two men, their stupidity will be plain to everyone.
10Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance,10But you have observed my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,
11persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me!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.
12Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.12Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in union with the Messiah Jesus will be persecuted.
13But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.13But evil people and impostors will go from bad to worse as they deceive others and are themselves deceived.
14You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them,14But as for you, continue in what you have learned and found to be true, because you know from whom you learned it.
15and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.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.
16All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;16All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
17so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.17so that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good action.
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