But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.
For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,
treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; avoid them.
For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women burdened with sins, led astray by various passions,
always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and deprived of the truth, who regard godliness as a means of gain.
But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.
But you have followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,
persecutions, sufferings—such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
while evil people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.
But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it,
and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work.
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