1 But realize this, that A1 Tim 4:1in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be APhil 2:21lovers of self, BLuke 16:14; 1 Tim 3:3; 6:10lovers of money, CRom 1:30boastful, CRom 1:30arrogant, D2 Pet 2:10-12revilers, CRom 1:30disobedient to parents, ELuke 6:35ungrateful, F1 Tim 1:9unholy, 3 ARom 1:31unloving, irreconcilable, B1 Tim 3:11malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, 1Lit not loving goodCTitus 1:8haters of good, 4 AActs 7:52treacherous, BActs 19:36reckless, C1 Tim 3:6conceited, DPhil 3:19lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of 1Or religionA1 Tim 4:7godliness, although they have B1 Tim 5:8denied its power; CMatt 7:15; 2 Thess 3:6Avoid such men as these. 6 For among them are those who 1Or creep intoAJude 4enter into households and captivate 2Or idleB1 Tim 5:6; Titus 3:3weak women weighed down with sins, led on by CTitus 3:3various impulses, 7 always learning and never able to A2 Tim 2:25come to the 1Or recognitionknowledge of the truth. 8 Just as AEx 7:11Jannes and Jambres BActs 13:8opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, C1 Tim 6:5men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith. 9 But they will not make further progress; for their ALuke 6:11folly will be obvious to all, just BEx 7:11, 12; 8:18; 9:11as 1Lit that of thoseJannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also.

10 Now you APhil 2:20, 22; 1 Tim 4:6followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, B1 Tim 6:11love, 1Or steadfastnessperseverance, 11 A2 Cor 12:10persecutions, and B2 Cor 1:5, 7sufferings, such as happened to me at CActs 13:14, 45, 50Antioch, at DActs 14:1-7, 19Iconium and at EActs 14:8-20Lystra; what F2 Cor 11:23-27persecutions I endured, and out of them all GRom 15:31the Lord rescued me! 12 Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus AJohn 15:20; Acts 14:22; 2 Cor 4:9fwill be persecuted. 13 But evil men and impostors A2 Tim 2:16will proceed from bad to worse, BTitus 3:3deceiving and being deceived. 14 You, however, A2 Tim 1:13; Titus 1:9continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them, 15 and that A2 Tim 1:5from childhood you have known BJohn 5:47; Rom 2:27the sacred writings which are able to CPs 119:98fgive you the wisdom that leads to D1 Cor 1:21salvation through faith which is in E2 Tim 1:1Christ Jesus. 16 ARom 4:23f; 15:4; 2 Pet 1:20fAll Scripture is 1Lit God-breathedinspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for 2Lit training which is intraining in righteousness; 17 so that A1 Tim 6:11the man of God may be adequate, B2 Tim 2:21; Heb 13:21equipped for every good work.