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| 3:1 |
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress.
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| 3:2 |
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
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| 3:3 |
inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, fierce, haters of good,
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| 3:4 |
treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
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| 3:5 |
holding the form of religion but denying the power of it. Avoid such people.
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| 3:6 |
For among them are those who make their way into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and swayed by various impulses,
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| 3:7 |
who will listen to anybody and can never arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
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| 3:8 |
As Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of corrupt mind and counterfeit faith;
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| 3:9 |
but they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.
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| 3:10 |
Now you have observed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,
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| 3:11 |
my persecutions, my sufferings, what befell me at Antioch, at Ico'nium, and at Lystra, what persecutions I endured;yetfrom them all the Lord rescued me.
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| 3:12 |
Indeed all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
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| 3:13 |
while evil men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceivers and deceived.
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| 3:14 |
But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it
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| 3:15 |
and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings which are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
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| 3:16 |
All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
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| 3:17 |
that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
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