2 Timothy 3Book 55 of 66 · 17 verses · MBT primary, NKJV fallback where MBT pending

1. But know this: that in the last days perilous times will come.
2. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3. without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,
4. treacherous, reckless, conceited — lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5. having a form of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
6. For from these are those who creep into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led away by various lusts —
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 also oppose the truth — men of corrupt mind, disqualified concerning the faith.
9. But they will not advance further. For their folly will be plain to all, just as also that of those men became.
10. But you have followed my teaching, my conduct, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,
11. my persecutions, my sufferings — what happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet 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 go from bad to worse — deceiving and being deceived.
14. But as for you — continue in the things you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.
15. And how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
16. All Scripture is breathed out by God, and is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness —
17. so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.