1. But know this, that in the last days grievous times will be upon us.
2. For men will be lovers of themselves, money-lovers, braggarts, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3. without natural feeling, unyielding, slanderers, without self-control, savage, haters of good,
4. betrayers, reckless, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5. having a form of godliness, but denying the power of it; even turn away from these.
6. For of these are those creeping into houses and leading silly women captive, the ones having been heaped with sins, being led away by various lusts,
7. always learning, but never being able to come to a full knowledge of the truth.
8. But in the way Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also these withstand the truth, men having been corrupted in mind, found worthless concerning the faith.
9. But they will not go further, for their foolishness will be plain to all, as also that of those became.
10. But you have closely followed my doctrine, the conduct, the purpose, the faith, the long-suffering, the love, the patient endurance,
11. the persecutions, the sufferings, such as happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra, what persecutions I bore. And the Lord delivered me out of all.
12. And, indeed, all desiring to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
13. But evil men and pretenders will go forward to worse, leading astray and being led astray.
14. But you keep on in what you learned and were assured of, knowing from whom you learned,
15. and that from a babe you know the Holy Scriptures, those being able to make you wise to salvation through belief in Christ Jesus.
16. All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
17. so that the man of God may be perfected, being fully furnished for every good work.