2 Timothy 3

[Dan Johnson]

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