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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. |
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