The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Timothy 03
1 But know this: that in the last days,
grievous times will come.
2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of
money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 without natural affection, unforgiving,
slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not
lovers of good,
4 traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers
of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 holding a form of godliness but having
denied its power. Turn away from these,
also.
6 For some of these are people who
creep into houses and take captive gullible
women loaded down with sins, led away
by various lusts,
7 always learning andnever able to come
to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed
Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men
corrupted in mind, who concerning the
faith are rejected.
9 But they will proceed no further. For
their folly will be evident to all men, as
theirs also came to be.
10 But you followed my teaching, conduct,
purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,
11 persecutions, and sufferings—those
things that happened to me at Antioch,
Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those
persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of
them all.
12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in
Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
13 But evil men and impostors will grow
worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
14 But you remain in the things which
you have learned and have been assured
of, knowing from whom you have learned
them.
15 From infancy, you have known the
holy Scriptures whichare able tomake you
wise for salvation through faith which is in
Christ Jesus.
16 Every Scripture is God-breathed and†
profitable for teaching, for reproof, for
correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
17 that each person who belongs to God
may be complete, thoroughly equipped for
every good work.