2 Timothy 3

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

But this know thou, that in the latter days hard times will come:

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

and men will be lovers of themselves, and lovers of money, boasters, proud, censorious, unyielding towards their own people, denyers of grace, wicked,

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

calumniators, addicted to concupiscence, ferocious, haters of the good,

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

treacherous, rash, inflated, attached to pleasure more than to the love of God,

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

having a form of respect for God, but wide from the power of God. Them who are such, repel from thee.

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

For of them are they who creep into this and that house, and captivate the women who are plunged in sins and led away by divers lusts,

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

who are always learning, and can never come to the knowledge of the truth.

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

Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also do these withstand the truth: men whose mind is corrupted, and they reprobates from the faith.

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

But they will not make progress, for their infatuation will be understood by every one, as theirs also was understood.

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

But thou hast followed after my doctrine, and my manner of life, and my aims, and my faith, and my long suffering, and my love, and my patience,

11 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.

and my persecution, and my sufferings. And thou knowest what I endured at Antioch, and at Iconium, and at Lystra; what persecution I endured: and from all these my Lord delivered me.

12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Messiah Yeshua will suffer persecution.

And likewise all, who choose to live in the fear of God, in Jesus the Messiah, will be persecuted.

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

But evil and seducing men will add to their wickedness, while they deceive and are deceived.

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

But continue thou in the things thou hast learned and been assured of; for thou knowest from whom thou learnedst;

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

because from thy childhood, thou wast taught the holy books, which can make thee wise unto life, by faith in Jesus the Messiah.

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

All scripture that was written by the Spirit, is profitable for instruction, and for confutation, and for correction, and for erudition in righteousness;

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

that the man of God may become perfect, and complete for every good work.