Montgomery - II Timothy - 3

3:1  But of this be sure. In the last days grievous times will come.

3:2  For men will be selfish, mercenary, boastful, haughty, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, irreligious,

3:3  without natural affection, merciless, slanderous, dissolute, and brutal.

3:4  They will hate goodness, they will be treacherous, reckless, blinded with pride, lovers of pleasure, rather than lovers of God.

3:5  For although they keep up the outward form of religion, they deny its power.

3:6  Turn away from all such. Some of them creep into private houses and lead captive silly women who, laden with sins,

3:7  and led captive by ever-changing impulses, are always learning but never able to arrive at knowledge of truth.

3:8  As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also do these men withstand the truth; being corrupt in mind and worthless in all that concerns the faith.

3:9  But they will not get on; for their folly will be made as openly manifest to all as was that of Jannes and Jambres.

3:10  But you, Timothy, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aims, my faith, patience, love, endurance,

3:11  as well as the persecutions and sufferings which befell me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. You know all the persecutions I endured, and how the Lord delivered me out of them all!

3:12  Yes, and all who purpose to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

3:13  But wicked men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving others, and being themselves deceived.

3:14  But do you hold fast what you have learned and have held to be true. You know those from whom you have learned it,

3:15  and how from a child you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

3:16  Every Scripture, seeing that it is God-breathed, is also profitable for teaching, for refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

3:17  so that the man of God may himself be complete, and completely equipped for every good work.