2 Timothy 3 - Amplified Bible(AMP)

“Difficult Times Will Come”

1But understand this, that in the last days dangerous times will come.

2For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane,

3[and they will be] unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, devoid of self-control, brutal, haters of good,

4traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

5holding to a form of godliness (religion), although they have denied its power. Avoid such people and keep far away from them.

6For among them are those who worm their way into homes and captivate morally weak and spiritually-dwarfed women weighed down by sins, easily swayed by various impulses,

7always learning and listening to anybody who will teach them, but 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, unqualified and worthless in regard to the faith.

9But they will not get very far, for their meaningless nonsense and ignorance will become obvious to everyone, as was that of Jannes and Jambres.

10Now you have diligently followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

11persecutions, and sufferings—such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, but the Lord rescued me from them all!

12Indeed, all who delight in pursuing righteousness and are determined to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be hunted and persecuted.

13But evil men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

14But as for you, continue in the things that you have learned and of which you are convinced, knowing from whom you learned them,

15and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings (Hebrew Scriptures) which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

16All Scripture is God-breathed and is profitable for instruction, for conviction, for correction, for training in righteousness;

17so that the man of God may be complete and proficient, outfitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work.