2Ti 3 | ISV | STEP | What People Will Be Like in the Last Days You must realize, however, that in the last days difficult times will come.

2 Timothy 3

1 What People Will Be Like in the Last Days

You must realize, however, that in the last days difficult times will come.1Tim 4:1; 2Tim 4:3; 2Pet 3:3; 1John 2:18; Jude 1:18 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,Rom 1:30; Phil 2:21; 1Tim 1:20; 6:4; 2Pet 2:3, 12; Jude 1:10, 16 3 unfeeling, uncooperative, slanderous, degenerate, brutal, hateful of what is good,Rom 1:31; 2Pet 3:3 4 traitors, reckless, conceited, and lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.Phil 3:19; 2Pet 2:10, 13; Jude 1:4, 19 5 They will hold to an outward form of godliness but deny its power. Stay away from such people.2Thes 3:6; 1Tim 5:8; 6:5; Titus 1:16 6 For some of these men go into homes and deceive foolish women who are burdened with sins and swayed by all kinds of desires.Matt 23:14; Titus 1:11 7 These women are always studying but are never able to arrive at a full knowledge of the truth.1Tim 2:4 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and their faith is a counterfeit.Exod 7:11; Rom 1:28; 2Cor 13:5; 1Tim 6:5; Titus 1:16 9 But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those two men, ^{▼▼The Gk. lacks two men} their stupidity will be plain to everyone.Exod 7:12; 8:18; 9:11

10 Continue to Teach the TruthBut you have observed my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,Phil 2:22; 1Tim 4:6 11 and my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.Ps 34:19; Acts 13:45, 50; 2Cor 1:10; 2Tim 4:7 12 Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in union with Christ Jesus will be persecuted.Josh 17:14; Ps 34:19; Matt 16:24; Acts 14:22; 1Cor 15:19; 1Thes 3:3 13 But evil people and impostors will go from bad to worse as they deceive others and are themselves deceived.2Thes 2:11; 1Tim 4:1; 2Tim 2:16

14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and found to be true, because you know from whom you learned it.2Tim 1:13; 2:2 15 From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures that are able to give you the wisdom you need for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.John 5:39 16 All Scripture is God-breathed ^{▼▼Or inspired by God} and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,Rom 15:4; 2Pet 1:20-21 17 so that the man of God may be complete and thoroughly equipped for every good work.1Tim 6:11; 2Tim 2:21