| Holman Christian Standard Bible | New 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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