• Difficult Times Will Come

  • 1 But know this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
  • 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
  • 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, without gentleness, without love for good,
  • 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
  • 5 holding to a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Keep away from such men as these.
  • 6 For among them are those who enter into households and take captive weak women weighed down with sins, being led on by various desires,
  • 7 always learning and never able to come to the full knowledge of the truth.
  • 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, disqualified in regard to the faith.
  • 9 But they will not make further progress, for their folly will be obvious to all, just as theirs was also.
  • 10 But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance,
  • 11 persecutions, 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!
  • 12 Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
  • 13 But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
  • 14 But you, continue in the things you learned and became convinced of, knowing from whom you learned them,
  • 15 and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
  • 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness,
  • 17 so that the man of God may be equipped, having been thoroughly equipped for every good work.