2 Timothy 3
"Difficult Times Will Come"
<sup id="en-NASB-29855">1</sup>But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
<sup id="en-NASB-29856">2</sup>For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
<sup id="en-NASB-29857">3</sup>unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
<sup id="en-NASB-29858">4</sup>treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
<sup id="en-NASB-29859">5</sup>holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
<sup id="en-NASB-29860">6</sup>For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
<sup id="en-NASB-29861">7</sup>always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
<sup id="en-NASB-29862">8</sup>Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
<sup id="en-NASB-29863">9</sup>But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes's and Jambres's folly was also.
<sup id="en-NASB-29864">10</sup>Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance,
<sup id="en-NASB-29865">11</sup>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!
<sup id="en-NASB-29866">12</sup>Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
<sup id="en-NASB-29867">13</sup>But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
<sup id="en-NASB-29868">14</sup>You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them,
<sup id="en-NASB-29869">15</sup>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.
<sup id="en-NASB-29870">16</sup>All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;
<sup id="en-NASB-29871">17</sup>so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.