New Testament · Letters

2 Timothy chapter 3

But this: the will bring times.People will be , , , , , dismissive of their parents, ungrateful, and completely for anything.They’ll be , , , out of control, , and .They’ll be the kind who others, , — people who are rather than .They’ll keep up an to God but reject the that actually makes it real. Stay away from people like that.These are the kind of people who households and manipulate weighed down by their , driven by one craving after another,always trying to learn but never able to arrive at a .Just like stood against Moses, these people stand against the truth. Their minds are and their so-called faith is .But they won’t get very far. Their will become obvious to everyone, just like it did with those two.But you, Timothy — you’ve my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my , my patience, my love, my ,and the and suffering I went through — what happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra. I endured terrible persecutions, and the Lord me from every one of them.In fact, everyone who is through , Jesus, will be persecuted.But and will go from bad to worse — deceiving others and being deceived themselves.But you — keep going in what you’ve learned and . You know who you learned it from,and that from infancy you’ve known the , which have the power to make you wise for through in , Jesus.Every part of is and is useful for teaching, for , for , and for ,so that the is , for every good thing they need to do.