Bible Reading Plan

2 Timothy 3

Chapter 3

Difficult Times Ahead

¹ But know this: Difficult times will come in the last days.^{(a) 2} For people will be lovers of self,^(b) lovers of money,^(c) boastful, proud,^(d) blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,^{(e) 3} unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers,^(f) without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,^{(g) 4} traitors,^(h) reckless,⁽ⁱ⁾ conceited,^(j) lovers of pleasure^(k) rather than lovers of God, ⁵ holding to the form of godliness but denying its power.^(l) Avoid these people!^(m)

⁶ For among them are those who worm their way into households and capture idle women burdened down with sins, led along by a variety of passions,^{(n) 7} always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.^{(o) 8} Just as Jannes and Jambres^(p) resisted Moses,^(q) so these also resist the truth, men who are corrupt in mind,^(r) worthless^(s) in regard to the faith. ⁹ But they will not make further progress, for their lack of understanding will be clear to all, as theirs^[a] was also.

Struggles in the Christian Life

¹⁰ But you have followed my teaching, conduct, purpose,^(t) faith, patience, love,^(u) and endurance, ¹¹ along with the persecutions and sufferings^(v) that came to me in Antioch,^(w) Iconium,^(x) and Lystra.^(y) What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from them all. ¹² In fact, all those who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.^{(z) 13} Evil people and impostors will become worse, deceiving^(aa) and being deceived. ¹⁴ But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed. You know those who taught you,^{(ab) 15} and you know that from childhood you have known the sacred Scriptures,^(ac) which are able to give you wisdom for salvation^(ad) through faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ All Scripture is inspired by God^[b](ae) and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness, ¹⁷ so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.^(af)