¹However, realize this, that in the last days difficult times will be present.

²For the men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

³unloving, implacable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, without love of good,

⁴treacherous, reckless, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

⁵but having a form of godliness, already denying its power. And these turn yourself away from.

⁶For out of this sort are those entering into the households and capturing the weak women burdened with sins, being led away by various passions,

⁷always learning and never being able to come to a knowledge of the truth.

⁸Now by which way Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these oppose the truth, men depraved in mind, disqualified regarding the trust.

⁹But they will not advance much further; for their folly will be plain to all, as also that of those two became.

¹⁰But you yourself closely followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, trust, patience, love, endurance,

¹¹the persecutions, the sufferings such as happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what manner of persecutions I endured! And yet out of all the Lord delivered me.

¹²Also all those now desiring to live piously in the Anointed One Jesus will be persecuted.

¹³However evil men and imposters will advance to the worse, deceiving and being deceived.

¹⁴However you yourself abide in the things you have learned and were assured of, knowing from which people you learned them,

¹⁵and that from childhood you know the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through trust that is in the Anointed One Jesus.

¹⁶Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

¹⁷so that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped toward every good work.