“Difficult Times Will Come”
1 2 Timothy 3:1 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2 2 Timothy 3:2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 2 Timothy 3:3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4 2 Timothy 3:4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 2 Timothy 3:5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
6 2 Timothy 3:6 For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
7 2 Timothy 3:7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 2 Timothy 3:8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
9 2 Timothy 3:9 But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also.
10 2 Timothy 3:10 Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance,
11 2 Timothy 3:11 persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me!
12 2 Timothy 3:12 Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
13 2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
14 2 Timothy 3:14 You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them,
15 2 Timothy 3:15 and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;
17 2 Timothy 3:17 so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.