2 Timothy 3
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1You must realize, however, that in the last days difficult times will come. 1But know this: Difficult times will come in the last days.
2People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 2For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3unfeeling, uncooperative, slanderous, degenerate, brutal, hateful of what is good, 3unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,
4traitors, reckless, conceited, and lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. 4traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5They will hold to an outward form of godliness but deny its power. Stay away from such people. 5holding to the form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people!
6For some of these men go into homes and deceive foolish women who are burdened with sins and swayed by all kinds of desires. 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,
7These women are always studying but are never able to arrive at a full knowledge of the truth. 7always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and their faith is a counterfeit. 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.
9But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those two men, their stupidity will be plain to everyone.9But they will not make further progress, for their lack of understanding will be clear to all, as theirs was also.
10But you have observed my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance, 10But you have followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, and endurance,
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. 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.
12Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in union with the Messiah Jesus will be persecuted. 12In fact, all those who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
13But evil people and impostors will go from bad to worse as they deceive others and are themselves deceived.13Evil people and impostors will become worse, deceiving and being deceived.
14But as for you, continue in what you have learned and found to be true, because you know from whom you learned it. 14But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed. You know those who taught you,
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. 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.
16All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 16All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness,
17so that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good action.17so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
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