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1 But know this: difficult times will come in the last days.
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1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.
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2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
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2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their 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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3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
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4 traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
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4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God--
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5 holding to the form of religion but denying its power. Avoid these people!
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5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.
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6 For among them are those who worm their way into households and capture idle women burdened down with sins, led along by a variety of passions,
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6 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires,
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7 always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
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7 always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth.
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8 Just as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so these also resist the truth, men who are corrupt in mind, worthless in regard to the faith.
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8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth--men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected.
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9 But they will not make further progress, for their lack of understanding will be clear to all, as theirs was also.
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9 But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.
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10 But you have followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, and endurance,
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10 You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, 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! Yet the Lord rescued me from them all.
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11 persecutions, sufferings--what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
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12 In fact, all those who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
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12 In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
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13 Evil people and imposters will become worse, deceiving and being deceived.
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13 while evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
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14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing those from whom you learned,
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14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it,
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15 and that from childhood you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
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15 and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise 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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16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and 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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17 so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
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