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¹ But know this, that in the last days grievous times will be upon us .² For men will be lovers of themselves, money-lovers, braggarts, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,³ without natural feeling, unyielding, slanderers, without self-control, savage, haters of good,⁴ betrayers, reckless, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,⁵ having a form of godliness, but denying the power of it; even turn away from these.⁶ For of these are those creeping into houses and leading silly women captive, the ones having been heaped with sins, being led away by various lusts,⁷ always learning, but never being able to come to a full knowledge of the truth.⁸ But in the way Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also these withstand the truth, men having been corrupted in mind, found worthless concerning the faith.⁹ But they will not go further, for their foolishness will be plain to all, as also that of those became.

¹⁰ But you have closely followed my doctrine, the conduct, the purpose, the faith, the long-suffering, the love, the patient endurance,¹¹ the persecutions, the sufferings, such as happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra, what persecutions I bore. And the Lord delivered me out of all.¹² And, indeed, all desiring to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.¹³ But evil men and pretenders will go forward to worse, leading astray and being led astray.¹⁴ But you keep on in what you learned and were assured of, knowing from whom you learned,¹⁵ and that from a babe you know the Holy Scriptures, those being able to make you wise to salvation through belief in Christ Jesus.¹⁶ All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,¹⁷ so that the man of God may be perfected, being fully furnished for every good work.