1 But know this, that in [the] last days difficult times will be present. VP
2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boasters, proud, verbally abusive, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, VP
3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without control, savage, without love of good, VP
4 betrayers, reckless, having been puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, VP
5 having a form of godliness but having denied its power. And turn away from these. VP
6 For out of these are those slipping into houses and taking captive weak women, heaped up with sins, being led by various passions, VP
7 always learning and never being able to come to a knowledge of [the] truth. VP
8 Now by which way Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these oppose the truth, men having been corrupted in mind, disqualified concerning the faith. VP
9 But they will not advance much further, for their folly will be evident to all, as also that of those [two] became. VP
10 But you have closely followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, VP
11 persecutions, sufferings, such as happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what manner of persecutions I bore up under! And the Lord delivered me out of all. VP
12 And all those also wanting to live godlily in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. VP
13 But evil men and imposters will advance to the worse, deceiving and being deceived. VP
14 But you, remain in the things you learned and were convinced of, having known from whom you learned, VP
15 and that from infancy you have known the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. VP
16 Every Scripture [is] God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, [and] for training in righteousness, VP
17 so that the man of God may be complete, having been completely equipped toward every good work. VP