1But know this: Difficult times will come in the last days. Jn 6:39; Php 1:6; 1Pt 1:5; 2Pt 3:3; Jd 18

2For people will be lovers of self, Php 2:21; 1Tm 6:4 lovers of money, Lk 16:14; 1Tm 3:3; 6:10 boastful, proud, Pr 16:18; Lk 1:51; Rm 1:30 blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 1Tm 1:9

3unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, Jn 14:6 without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good, Ti 1:8

4traitors, Lk 6:16; Ac 7:52 reckless, Ac 19:36 conceited, 1Tm 3:6; 6:4 lovers of pleasure Php 3:19 rather than lovers of God,

5holding to the form of godliness but denying its power. 1Co 4:20; 2Co 13:4; Ti 1:16 Avoid these people! Mt 7:15; 2Th 3:6

6For among them are those who worm their way into households and capture idle women burdened down with sins, led along by a variety of passions, 2Pt 1:4; 2:10

7always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. 2Co 11:10; 1Tm 2:4; 2Tm 2:25; Ti 1:1

8Just as Jannes and Jambres Ex 7:11-12; 8:18; 9:11 resisted Moses, Ps 77:20; Mt 8:4; Heb 3:2 so these also resist the truth, men who are corrupt in mind, 1Co 14:14; Php 4:7 worthless 2Co 13:5-7 in regard to the faith.

9But they will not make further progress, for their lack of understanding will be clear to all, as theirs = Jannes and Jambres was also.

10But you have followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, Pr 19:21; Ac 11:23 faith, patience, love, 1Co 13:1; 1Jn 4:16 and endurance,

11along with the persecutions and sufferings Gl 5:24; Php 3:10 that came to me in Antioch, Ac 13:14; 14:19,21 Iconium, Ac 13:51; 16:2 and Lystra. Ac 14:6,8; 27:5 What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from them all.

12In fact, all those who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. Jn 15:20; Ac 14:22; 2Co 4:9-10

13Evil people and impostors will become worse, deceiving Rv 20:10 and being deceived.

14But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed. You know those who taught you, 2Tm 1:13

15and you know that from childhood you have known the sacred Scriptures, Mt 26:54; 2Pt 1:20-21 which are able to give you wisdom for salvation Ac 4:12; 2Co 7:10; Heb 5:9 through faith in Christ Jesus.

16All Scripture is inspired by God Lit breathed out by God ; the Scripture is the product of God’s Spirit working through men; 2Pt 1:20-21. 2Pt 1:20-21 and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness,

17so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. 2Co 9:8; Gl 3:10; 1Tm 5:10; 2Tm 2:21