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2 Timothy 3

2 Timothy 3:1WEB

But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come.

2 Timothy 3:2WEB

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

2 Timothy 3:3WEB

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

2 Timothy 3:4WEB

traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

2 Timothy 3:5WEB

holding a form of godliness but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

2 Timothy 3:6WEB

For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

2 Timothy 3:7WEB

always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

2 Timothy 3:8WEB

Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected.

2 Timothy 3:9WEB

But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.

2 Timothy 3:10WEB

But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

2 Timothy 3:11WEB

persecutions, and sufferings—those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

2 Timothy 3:12WEB

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

2 Timothy 3:13WEB

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

2 Timothy 3:14WEB

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

2 Timothy 3:15WEB

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 3:16WEB

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

2 Timothy 3:17WEB

that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.