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2 Timothy 3

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1But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. ✦ 2For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, ✦ 3unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, ✦ 4treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, ✦ 5holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these. ✦ 6For among them are those who slip into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, ✦ 7always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. ✦ 8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, worthless in regard to the faith. ✦ 9But they will not make further progress; for their foolishness will be obvious to all, just as was that also of Jannes and Jambres. ✦ 10Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance, ✦ 11persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me! ✦ 12Indeed, all who want to live in a godly way in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. ✦ 13But evil people and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. ✦ 14You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them, ✦ 15and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. ✦ 16All Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness; ✦ 17so that the man or woman of God may be fully capable, equipped for every good work. ✦

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2 Pet 2 ·12Jude 1 ·121 Tim 6 ·92 Tim 2 ·8Acts 13 ·72 Pet 3 ·72 Tim 4 ·7Titus 1 ·6

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