• Difficult Times Will Come

  • 1 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
  • 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
  • 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
  • 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
  • 5 holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these.
  • 6 For among them are those who slip into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
  • 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
  • 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, worthless in regard to the faith.
  • 9 But they will not make further progress; for their foolishness will be obvious to all, just as was that also of Jannes and Jambres.
  • 10 Now 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 want to live in a godly way in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
  • 13 But evil people and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
  • 14 You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them,
  • 15 and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
  • 16 All Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness;
  • 17 so that the man or woman of God may be fully capable, equipped for every good work.