2 Timothy 3:1–17

¹But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here.²For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self‐assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal,³having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self‐control, fierce, without love of goodness,⁴betrayers, headstrong, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God,⁵having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power; and from these turn away.⁶For from these arise those men who slyly work their way into households and lead as their captives weak women loaded down with sins, led by various desires,⁷always learning and yet never able to come to an accurate knowledge of truth.

⁸Now in the way that Jan′nes and Jam′bres resisted Moses, so these also go on resisting the truth, men completely corrupted in mind, disapproved as regards the faith.⁹Nevertheless, they will make no further progress, for their madness will be very plain to all, even as the [madness] of those [two men] became.¹⁰But you have closely followed my teaching, my course of life, my purpose, my faith, my long‐suffering, my love, my endurance,¹¹my persecutions, my sufferings, the sort of things that happened to me in Antioch, in I‧co′ni‧um, in Lys′tra, the sort of persecutions I have borne; and yet out of them all the Lord delivered me.¹²In fact, all those desiring to live with godly devotion in association with Christ Jesus will also be persecuted.¹³But wicked men and impostors will advance from bad to worse, misleading and being misled.

¹⁴You, however, continue in the things that you learned and were persuaded to believe, knowing from what persons you learned them¹⁵and 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.¹⁶All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness,¹⁷that the man of God may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work.