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30 lines
1.9 KiB
Markdown
Difficult Times Ahead
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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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Struggles in the Christian Life
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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.
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