2 Timothy 3
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Holman Christian Standard BibleNew American Standard Bible 1995
1But know this: Difficult times will come in the last days.1But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,3unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 4treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5holding to the form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people! 5holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
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 enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
7always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.7always learning and never able to come to the 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 of depraved mind, rejected in regard to 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 make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes's and Jambres's folly was also.
10But you have followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, and endurance, 10Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance,
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. 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!
12In fact, all those who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.12Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
13Evil people and impostors will become worse, deceiving and being deceived. 13But evil men and impostors will proceed 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,14You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them,
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 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.
16All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness, 16All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;
17so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. 17so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.
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