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18 lines
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# Chapter 3
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1 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.
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2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
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3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,
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4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
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5 having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
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6 For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,
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7 always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
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8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith.
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9 But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.
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10 You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,
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11 my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me.
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12 Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
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13 while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
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14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it
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15 and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
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16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
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17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. |