The Second to Timothy, 3

¹ But know this, that in the last days critical times hard^*1 to deal with will be here.

² For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self-assuming, haughty,^*1 blasphemers,^*2 disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal,

³ having no natural affection, not open to any agreement,^*1 slanderers,^*2 without self-control, fierce,^*3 without love of goodness,

⁴ betrayers, headstrong, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God,

⁵ having a form of godly devotion^*1 but proving false to its power; and from these turn away.

⁶ For from these arise those men who slyly work their way^*1 into households and lead as their captives weak women loaded down with sins, led by various desires,

⁷ always learning and yet never able to come to an accurate knowledge of truth.

⁸ Now in the way that Janʹnes and Jamʹbres resisted Moses, so these also go on resisting the truth, men completely corrupted in mind, disapproved as regards the faith.

⁹ Nevertheless, they will make no further progress, for their madness will be very plain to all, even as the [madness] of those [two men] became.

¹⁰ But you have closely followed my teaching, my course of life, my purpose, my faith, my long-suffering, my love, my endurance,

¹¹ my persecutions, my sufferings, the sort of things that happened to me in Antioch, in I·coʹni·um, in Lysʹtra, the sort of persecutions I have borne; and yet out of them all the Lord delivered me.

¹² In fact, all those desiring to live with godly devotion in association with Christ Jesus will also be persecuted.

¹³ But wicked men and impostors will advance from bad to worse, misleading and being misled.

¹⁴ You, however, continue in the things that you learned and were persuaded to believe, knowing from what persons you learned them

¹⁵ and that from infancy you have known the holy writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through the faith in connection with Christ Jesus.

¹⁶ All Scripture is inspired of God^*1 and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight,^*2 for disciplining in righteousness,

¹⁷ that the man of God may be fully competent, completely equipped^*1 for every good work.