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Godlessness in the Last Days

¹But understand this, that yin the last days there will come times of difficulty. ²For people will be zlovers of self, alovers of money, bproud, barrogant, abusive, bdisobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³cheartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, dnot loving good, ⁴treacherous, reckless, eswollen with conceit, flovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, ⁵having the appearance of godliness, but gdenying its power. hAvoid such people. ⁶For among them are ithose who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, ⁷always learning and never able to jarrive at a knowledge of the truth. ⁸Just as kJannes and Jambres lopposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, mmen corrupted in mind and ndisqualified regarding the faith. ⁹But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, oas was that of those two men.

All Scripture Is Breathed Out by God

¹⁰pYou, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, ¹¹my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me qat Antioch, rat Iconium, and sat Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet tfrom them all uthe Lord rescued me. ¹²Indeed, all who desire to vlive a godly life in Christ Jesus wwill be persecuted, ¹³while xevil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and ybeing deceived. ¹⁴But as for you, zcontinue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom1 you learned it ¹⁵and how afrom childhood you have been acquainted with bthe sacred writings, cwhich are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶dAll Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, ¹⁷that ethe man of God2 may be complete, fequipped gfor every good work.