Chapter 3

  But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.  

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  For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,  

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  without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,  

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  traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;  

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  holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof. Turn away from these, also.  

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  For of these are those who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,  

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  always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.  

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  Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.  

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  But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.  

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  But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,  

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  persecutions, and sufferings; those things that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; those persecutions that I endured. Out of them all the Lord delivered me.  

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  Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.  

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  But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.  

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  But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.  

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  From infancy, you have known the sacred writings which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.  

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  Every scripture inspired by God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness,  

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  that the man of God may be complete, furnished completely to every good work.  

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