2 Timothy 3:1-11 ▼

1 But know this, that in the last days trying times will come.

2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, revilers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

3 without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, intemperate, fierce, haters of those who are good,

4 traitors, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God,

5 having a form of godliness, but denying its power: from these also turn away.

6 For of this sort are those who worm themselves into houses, and lead captive silly women that are laden with sins, and influenced by various desires,

7 that are always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so these also will withstand the truth; men corrupt in mind, rejected as it respects the faith.

9 But they shall proceed no further; for their madness shall be manifest to all, as was the madness of those men.

10 But you have fully known my teaching, my course of life, my purpose, my faithfulness, my long-suffering, my love, my patience,

11 my persecutions, my sufferings which came upon me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; you well know what persecutions I endured: and yet out of them all, the Lord delivered me.