2nd Timothy 3

CHAPTER 3

¹But know thou this thing, that in the last days perilous times shall nigh,

²and men shall be loving them-selves, covetous, high of bearing, proud, blasphemers, not obedient to father and mother, unkind, cursed,

³without affection, [or good will] , without peace, false blamers [or false challengers] , uncontinent, [or unchaste] , unmild, without benignity,

⁴traitors, over-thwart [or froward] , swollen [or blown] with proud thoughts , blind, lovers of lusts more than of God,

⁵having the likeness of piety, but denying the virtue of it. And eschew thou these men .

⁶Of these they be that pierce houses, and lead women captives [or and lead little women captive] , charged with sins, which be led with diverse desires,

⁷evermore learning, and never perfectly coming to the science, [or to the knowing] , of truth.

⁸And as Jannes and Jambres against-stood Moses, so these against-stand the truth, men corrupt in understanding [or in soul] , reproved about the faith.

⁹But further they shall not profit, for the unwisdom of them shall be known to all men, as theirs was.

¹⁰But thou hast gotten my teaching [or my doctrine] , ordinance, purposing [or purpose] , faith, long abiding, love, patience,

¹¹persecutions, passions, which were made to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra, what manner persecutions I suffered, and the Lord hath delivered me of all.

¹²And all men that will live faithfully [or piously] in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution.

¹³But evil men and deceivers shall increase into worse, erring [them-selves] , and sending [others] into error.

¹⁴But dwell thou in these things that thou hast learned, and that be betaken to thee, witting of whom thou hast learned;

¹⁵for thou hast known holy letters from thy youth, which may learn thee [or may inform thee] to health, by faith that is in Christ Jesus.

¹⁶For all scripture inspired of God is profitable to teach, to reprove, to chastise, [for] to learn in rightwiseness,

¹⁷that the man of God be perfect, learned to all good work[s] .