2nd Timothy 3 - NIV

(2 Tim 3:2 NIV) People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

(2 Tim 3:3 NIV) without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,

(2 Tim 3:4 NIV) treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God--

(2 Tim 3:5 NIV) having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.

(2 Tim 3:6 NIV) 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,

(2 Tim 3:7 NIV) always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth.

(2 Tim 3:8 NIV) 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.

(2 Tim 3:9 NIV) But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.

(2 Tim 3:10 NIV) You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance,

(2 Tim 3:11 NIV) 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.

(2 Tim 3:12 NIV) In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

(2 Tim 3:13 NIV) while evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

(2 Tim 3:14 NIV) But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it,

(2 Tim 3:15 NIV) and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

(2 Tim 3:16 NIV) All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,

(2 Tim 3:17 NIV) so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.