¹And know this, that in the last days difficult times will set in, ²for men will be selfish, money-loving, braggarts, arrogant, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³lacking natural affection, implacable, slanderous, intemperate, wild, despisers of good, ⁴traitors, reckless, crazed, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, ⁵having a form of godliness, but having denied the power of it. From these also turn away. ⁶For among them are those who slip into houses and captivate silly women who are loaded with sins and led along by various desires, ⁷always learning but never able to come to acknowledgment of the truth. ⁸And in the way in which Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so these also are resisting the truth, being men of depraved mind, unfit in respect of the faith. ⁹But they will not get very far, for their folly will be evident to all, as was that of the above-mentioned. ¹⁰But you have closely followed my doctrine, way of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, endurance, ¹¹persecutions, sufferings, such as happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra. But I endured such persecutions, and the Lord rescued me from them all. ¹²Now all who wish to live in a godly way in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, ¹³and wicked men and cheats will go on from bad to worse, leading astray and going astray. ¹⁴But you remain in those things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you learned them. ¹⁵And from childhood you have known the holy scriptures, which are able to make you wise in salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶Every scripture is inspired by God, and is useful for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, ¹⁷so that the man of God may be competent, fully equipped for every good work.