¹But know this : that in the last days , grievous times will come .

²For men will be lovers of self , lovers of money , boastful, arrogant , blasphemers, disobedient to parents , unthankful, unholy,

³without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers , without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

⁴traitors , headstrong, conceited , lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God ,

⁵holding a form of godliness but having denied its power . Turn away from these , also .

⁶For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts ,

⁷always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

⁸Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses , so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind , who concerning the faith are rejected.

⁹But they will proceed no further . For their folly will be evident to all men , as theirs also came to be .

¹⁰But you followed my teaching , conduct, purpose , faith , patience , love, steadfastness ,

¹¹persecutions , and sufferings —those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium , and Lystra . I endured those persecutions . The Lord delivered me out of them all .

¹²Yes , and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution .

¹³But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse , deceiving and being deceived .

¹⁴But you remain in the things which you have learnt and have been assured of , knowing from whom you have learnt them .

¹⁵From infancy , you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus .

¹⁶Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching , for reproof , for correction , and for instruction in righteousness ,[#3:16 or, Every writing inspired by God is]

¹⁷that each person who belongs to God may be complete , thoroughly equipped for every good work .