2nd Timothy   
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3:1But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.
3:2People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3:3without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
3:4treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God--
3:5having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.
3:6They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires,
3:7always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth.
3:8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth--men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected.
3:9But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.
3:10You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance,
3:11persecutions, sufferings--what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
3:12In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
3:13while evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
3:14But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it,
3:15and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
3:16All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
3:17so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
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