| 章 |
| 3:1 |
But this know, that in [the] last days difficult times shall be there;
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| 3:2 |
for men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, evil speakers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, profane,
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| 3:3 |
without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good,
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| 3:4 |
traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
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| 3:5 |
having a form of piety but denying the power of it: and from these turn away.
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| 3:6 |
For of these are they who are getting into houses, and leading captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts,
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| 3:7 |
always learning, and never able to come to [the] knowledge of [the] truth.
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| 3:8 |
Now in the same manner in which Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, thus these also withstand the truth; men corrupted in mind, found worthless as regards the faith.
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| 3:9 |
But they shall not advance farther; for their folly shall be completely manifest to all, as that of those also became.
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| 3:10 |
But *thou* hast been thoroughly acquainted with my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, endurance,
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| 3:11 |
persecutions, sufferings: what [sufferings] happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what persecutions I endured; and the Lord delivered me out of all.
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| 3:12 |
And all indeed who desire to live piously in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
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| 3:13 |
But wicked men and juggling impostors shall advance in evil, leading and being led astray.
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| 3:14 |
But *thou*, abide in those things which thou hast learned, and [of which] thou hast been fully persuaded, knowing of whom thou hast learned [them];
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| 3:15 |
and that from a child thou hast known the sacred letters, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith which [is] in Christ Jesus.
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| 3:16 |
Every scripture [is] divinely inspired, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness;
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| 3:17 |
that the man of God may be complete, fully fitted to every good work.
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