2 Timothy 3:1-11 ▼

1 KNOW this: that in the last days disas trous times will come.

2 And men shall be lovers of themselves, and lovers of money, proud, conceited, blasphemers, disobedient to their own people, ungrateful, wicked,

3 False accusers, addicts to lust, brutal, haters of good things,

4 Traitors, hasty, boasters, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

5 Having a form of godliness, but are far from the power of God: from such turn away.

6 For of this sort are those who creep into houses and captivate women sunken in sin, led away with divers lusts,

7 Ever striving to learn, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth,

8 Now just as Jan’nes and Jam’bres stood up against Moses, so do these also resist the truth, men of corrupt minds and far off from the faith.

9 But they shall not progress, for their folly is well known to every man, as theirs also was.

10 But you have been a follower of my teaching, manner of life, purpose, faith, patience, charity, love, steadfastness,

11 Persecution and sorrows: you know the things which I endured at Antioch, and at Ico’ni- um, and at Lys’tra; how I was persecuted; and yet from all these my LORD delivered me.