[1] But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come.
[2] For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
[3] without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,
[4] traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
[5] holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
[6] For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
[7] always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
[8] Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected.
[9] But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.
[10] But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,
[11] persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.
[12] Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Messiah Yeshua will suffer persecution.
[13] But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
[14] But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.
[15] From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Messiah Yeshua.
[16] Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
[17] that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.