3 But understand this: Terrible times will come in the last days.  2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,  3 unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, lacking self-control, brutal, hating what is good,  4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.  5 They will have an outward form of religion but deny its power. So avoid these people.  6 For some of them worm their way into households and capture weak women burdened down with sins and driven by a variety of passions. 7 Such women are always learning but never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. [1348]  8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, these people oppose the truth. Their minds are corrupted, and they are disqualified in the faith.  9 They will not make further progress, as their stupidity will be clear to everyone, just as it was with Jannes and Jambres.
    10 But you have followed my teaching, conduct, goal, faith, patience, love and endurance, 11 and the persecutions and sufferings which I experienced in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured, and the lord rescued me from all of them.  12 In fact, all who desire to live in a godly way in Messiah Jesus are bound to suffer persecution. 13 But evil people and charlatans will get worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. [1349] 14 You, however, continue in the things you have learned and been convinced of. You know who you learned them from,  15 and from your childhood you have known the holy Scriptures,[1350] which are able to provide you with the wisdom which leads to salvation, through the faith which is in Messiah Jesus. 16 All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for exposing error, for correcting, and for training in uprightness, 17 so that the man of God may be a master of his craft, equipped for every good work.