Chapter 3                           

2 Timothy: Chapters -1- -2- -3- -4-
  3:1 Know this, however, that in the last days hard and difficult times will threaten. 2 For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, imposters, arrogant, slanderous, unpersuaded towards parents, ungrateful, unclean, 3 unloving, implacable, accusative, without self-control, savage, without love of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of homage to God, but contradicting the power of it. Turn away from these, 6 for out of this sort are those entering into households and ensnaring silly women who are weighed down with falling short. These are carried about by various strong desires. 7 These are always learning, but never able to come to the acknowledgement or personal knowledge of the truth. 8 As Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these oppose the truth, men of utterly corrupt mind, unproven regarding the faith. 9 But they will not advance very far, for their folly will be evident to all, just the same as happened to those two.

10 You, however, have closely followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, perseverance, 11 persecutions, and sufferings, such as those that happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, and in Lystra. What manner of persecutions I endured! And yet the Lord rescued me out of them all.

• 12 All, now, who desire to live in reverence to God inside of Christ Jesus will be persecuted and hunted down. 13 Evil men and imposters, however, will become even worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14 You, however, remain inside the things you have learned and have been assured of, having been aware from whom you learned them. 15 From childhood, you have been aware of the sacred writings which are capable of making you wise into salvation through faith inside of Christ Jesus.

• 16 Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable towards instruction, towards inner conviction, towards being set straight, towards training inside of justice, 17 so that the man or woman of God may be complete, having been fully equipped toward every good work.
 		  
 
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