Timothy (The Second Epistle of Paul to )

But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,

treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; and avoid such men as these.

For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,

always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

And just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these [men] also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected as regards the faith.

But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, as also that of those [two] came to be.

But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance,

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 delivered me!

But evil men and impostors will proceed [from bad] to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned [them];

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.

All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;

that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.