2nd Timothy Chapter 3 World English Bible

2nd Timothy 3:1

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

2nd Timothy 3:2

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

2nd Timothy 3:3

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,

2nd Timothy 3:4

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

2nd Timothy 3:5

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

2nd Timothy 3:6

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

2nd Timothy 3:7

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

2nd Timothy 3:8

Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.

2nd Timothy 3:9

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

2nd Timothy 3:10

But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

2nd Timothy 3:11

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. Out of them all the Lord delivered me.

2nd Timothy 3:12

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

2nd Timothy 3:13

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

2nd Timothy 3:14

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

2nd Timothy 3:15

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

2nd Timothy 3:16

Every writing inspired by God{literally, God-breathed} is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction which is in righteousness,

2nd Timothy 3:17

that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.