Chapter 3
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 Christ Jesus 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 learnt and have been assured of , knowing from whom you have learnt them .
15 From infancy , you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus .
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 .