1But know this, that ⚓in the last days perilous times will come: 2For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4⚓traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5⚓having a form of godliness but ⚓denying its power. And ⚓from such people turn away! 6For ⚓of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, 7always learning and never able ⚓to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8⚓Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: ⚓men of corrupt minds, ⚓disapproved concerning the faith; 9but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, ⚓as theirs also was.
The Man of God and the Word of God
10⚓But you have carefully followed my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, perseverance, 11persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me ⚓at Antioch, ⚓at Iconium, ⚓at Lystra—what persecutions I endured. And ⚓out of them all the Lord delivered me. 12Yes, and ⚓all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. 13⚓But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14But you must ⚓continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them,15and that from childhood you have known ⚓the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16⚓All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, ⚓and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17⚓that the man of God may be complete, ⚓thoroughly equipped for every good work.