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2 Timothy 3:1-9

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1 But this know, that in [the] last days difficult times shall be there;
1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.
2 for men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, evil speakers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, profane,
2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good,
3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
4 traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—
5 having a form of piety but denying the power of it: and from these turn away.
5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.
6 For of these are they who are getting into houses, and leading captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts,
6 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires,
7 always learning, and never able to come to [the] knowledge of [the] truth.
7 always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
8 Now in the same manner in which Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, thus these also withstand the truth; men corrupted in mind, found worthless as regards the faith.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected.
9 But they shall not advance farther; for their folly shall be completely manifest to all, as that of those also became.
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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