Study Desk

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,

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,

But they will not make further progress, for their lack of understanding will be clear to all, as theirs was also.

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed. You know those who taught you,

and you know that from childhood you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness,

so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear something new.

But as for you, be serious about everything, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time for my departure is close.

There is reserved for me in the future the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me on that day, and not only to me, but to all those who have loved His appearing.

for Demas has deserted me, because he loved this present world, and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Only Luke is with me. Bring Mark with you, for he is useful to me in the ministry.

Watch out for him yourself because he strongly opposed our words.

For an overseer, as God's administrator, must be blameless, not arrogant, not hot-tempered, not addicted to wine, not a bully, not greedy for money,

For there are also many rebellious people, full of empty talk and deception, especially those from Judaism.

They profess to know God, but they deny Him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, and disqualified for any good work.

For the grace of God has appeared with salvation for all people,

while we wait for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.