| 1 | And know this: that in the last days perilous times will press near. |
| 2 | Men will be lovers of themselves, greedy, self-exalting, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked, |
| 3 | without affection, without peace, false accusers, unchaste, cruel, without kindness, |
| 4 | traitorous, reckless, self-important, loving pleasure more than God, |
| 5 | even having the appearance of piety while rejecting its virtue. And so, avoid them. |
| 6 | For among these are ones who penetrate houses and lead away, like captives, foolish women burdened with sins, who are led away by means of various desires, |
| 7 | always learning, yet never achieving knowledge of the truth. |
| 8 | And in the same manner that Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so also will these resist the truth, men corrupted in mind, reprobates from the faith. |
| 9 | But they will not advance beyond a certain point. For the folly of the latter shall be made manifest to all, just as that of the former. |
| 10 | But you have fully comprehended my doctrine, instruction, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience, |
| 11 | persecutions, afflictions; such things as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra; how I endured persecutions, and how the Lord rescued me from everything. |
| 12 | And all those who willingly live the piety in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. |
| 13 | But evil men and deceivers will advance in evil, erring and sending into error. |
| 14 | Yet truly, you should remain in those things which you have learned and which have been entrusted to you. For you know from whom you have learned them. |
| 15 | And, from your infancy, you have known the Sacred Scriptures, which are able to instruct you toward salvation, through the faith which is in Christ Jesus. |
| 16 | All Scripture, having been divinely inspired, is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in justice, |
| 17 | so that the man of God may be perfect, having been trained for every good work. |
