[1] But know this, that in the last days difficult times will come. [2] For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, [3] unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, without gentleness, without love for good, [4] treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, [5] holding to a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Keep away from such men as these. [6] For among them are those who enter into households and take captive weak women weighed down with sins, being led on by various desires, [7] always learning and never able to come to the full knowledge of the truth. [8] Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, disqualified in regard to the faith. [9] But they will not make further progress, for their folly will be obvious to all, just as theirs was also. [10] But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance, [11] persecutions, 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! [12] Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. [13] But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. [14] But you, continue in the things you learned and became convinced of, knowing from whom you learned them, [15] and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith which is 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 equipped, having been thoroughly equipped for every good work.
