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1I want you to remember that the last days will be violent and dangerous times.
2People will love only themselves and possessions. They will be puffed up, big-headed, troublemakers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, and unspiritual.
3People will be cold-hearted, merciless, full of accusations, without self-control, savage, and haters of what is good.
4They will be traitors, reckless and arrogant people who love pleasure more than they love the Great Spirit.
5Stay clear of people like this, for they make a big show of being spiritual but deny its true power.
6Some of these are men who trick their way into people’s families to manipulate vulnerable women who have given themselves over to broken ways to be burdened down with all kinds of evil desires.
7They are always looking to learn new things but never able to find and understand the truth.
8In the same way that Greedy Man (Jannes) and Hostile Man (Jambres) stood against Drawn from the Water (Moses) , these men also stand against the truth. They are men of bent and twisted minds, whose understanding of our spiritual ways is worthless.[#3:8 Exodus 7:11; #3:8 Lit. the faith]
9But they will not fool many, for their trickery will be easy to see, just as it was for Greedy Man (Jannes) and Hostile Man (Jambres) .
10But you, He Gives Honor (Timothy) , have followed my teachings, my way of life, my purpose, and what I believe. You know how patient I am, how much I love others, and how I have never given up.
11You also know how much I suffered when I was at Stands Against (Antioch) , Spirit Village (Iconium) , and Set Free (Lystra) , how they hunted me down to bring harm to me. But our Honored Chief rescued me in each of those places.
12It is a true saying that all who want to live their lives in harmony with Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One will suffer harm at the hands of those who stand against him.
13Bad-hearted people will go from bad to worse. These are humans behaving like tricksters who lead people down the same kind of path they have been tricked into walking.
14But you should keep following the ways you have been taught, the teachings you are sure of, for you know who it was who taught you.
15From the time you were a young boy you have known the Sacred Teachings that are able to make you wise as you trust in the one who has set you free and made you whole, Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One.
16All the Sacred Teachings come from the breath of the Great Spirit and help us to teach others about Creator’s ways. They help us correct wrong thinking and bring lives into balance. They show the good and right way to walk the road of life.
17In this way, those who walk with the Great Spirit will have everything that is needed to do good things for others.