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18 lines
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# Chapter 3
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1 But know this: Hard times will come in the last days.
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2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, demeaning, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
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3 unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,
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4 traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
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5 holding to the form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people.
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6 For among them are those who worm their way into households and deceive gullible women overwhelmed by sins and led astray by a variety of passions,
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7 always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
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8 Just as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so these also resist the truth. They are men who are corrupt in mind and worthless in regard to the faith.
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9 But they will not make further progress, for their foolishness will be clear to all, as was the foolishness of Jannes and Jambres.
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10 But you have followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, and endurance,
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11 along with the persecutions and sufferings that came to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured—and yet the Lord rescued me from them all.
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12 In fact, all who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
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13 Evil people and impostors will become worse, deceiving and being deceived.
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14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed. You know those who taught you,
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15 and you know that from infancy you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
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16 All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness,
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17 so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. |