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The Dangers of the Last Days
You should know this, Timothy, that in the last days there will be very difficult times.
You should know this, Timothy, that in the last days there will be very difficult times.
“Difficult Times Will Come”
But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
For people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred.
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
They will be unloving and unforgiving; they will slander others and have no self-control. They will be cruel and hate what is good.
unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
They will betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with pride, and love pleasure rather than God.
treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
They will act religious, but they will reject the power that could make them godly. Stay away from people like that!
holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
(Such women are forever following new teachings, but they are never able to understand the truth.)
always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
These teachers oppose the truth just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses. They have depraved minds and a counterfeit faith.
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
But they won’t get away with this for long. Someday everyone will recognize what fools they are, just as with Jannes and Jambres.
But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also.
Paul’s Charge to Timothy
But you, Timothy, certainly know what I teach, and how I live, and what my purpose in life is. You know my faith, my patience, my love, and my endurance.
Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance,
You know how much persecution and suffering I have endured. You know all about how I was persecuted in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra — but the Lord rescued me from all of it.
persecutions, 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!
Yes, and everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
But evil people and impostors will flourish. They will deceive others and will themselves be deceived.
But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
But you must remain faithful to the things you have been taught. You know they are true, for you know you can trust those who taught you.
You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them,
You have been taught the holy Scriptures from childhood, and they have given you the wisdom to receive the salvation that comes by trusting in Christ Jesus.
and 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.
All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right.
All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;