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2 Timothy
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| | 1 | But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: | |
| | 2 | For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, | |
| | 3 | unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, | |
| | 4 | traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, | |
| | 5 | having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! | |
| | 6 | For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, | |
| | 7 | always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. | |
| | 8 | Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith; | |
| | 9 | but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was. | |
| | 10 | But you have carefully followed my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, perseverance, | |
| | 11 | persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra--what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me. | |
| | 12 | Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. | |
| | 13 | But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. | |
| | 14 | But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, | |
| | 15 | and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. | |
| | 16 | All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, | |
| | 17 | that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. | |
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