2 Timothy 3 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

Difficult Times Will Come

But know^G1097 this^G3778, that in the last^G2078 days^G2250 difficult^G5467 times^G2540 will come^G1764.

2Ti 3:2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

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2Ti 3:3unloving, irreconcilable, [fn]malicious gossips, without self-control, without gentleness, without love for good,

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2Ti 3:4treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

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2Ti 3:5holding to a form of [fn]godliness, but having denied its power. Keep away from such men as these.

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2Ti 3:6For among them are those who [fn]enter into households and take captive [fn]weak women weighed down with sins, being led on by various desires,

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2Ti 3:7always learning and never able to come to the [fn]full knowledge of the truth.

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2Ti 3:8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, disqualified in regard to the faith.

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2Ti 3:9But they will not make further progress, for their folly will be obvious to all, just as theirs was also.

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But you followed^G3877 my teaching^G1319, conduct^G72, purpose^G4286, faith^G4102, patience^G3115, love^G26, [fn]perseverance^G5281,

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2Ti 3:11persecutions, 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!

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2Ti 3:12Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

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But evil^G4190 men^G444 and impostors^G1114 will proceed^G4298 from bad to worse^G5501, deceiving^G4105 and being deceived^G4105.

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But^G1161 you, continue^G3306 in the things^G3739 you learned^G3129 and became convinced^G4104 of, knowing^G6063 from whom^G5101 you learned^G3129 them,

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2Ti 3:15and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

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