1 B ut know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times,

2 F or men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind,

3 w ithout natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, not lovers of those who are good,

4 t raitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,

5 h olding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,

6 F or some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

for of these there are those coming into the houses and leading captive the silly women, laden with sins, led away with desires manifold,

7 a lways learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

always learning, and never to a knowledge of truth able to come,

8 E ven as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith, are rejected.

and, even as Jannes and Jambres stood against Moses, so also these do stand against the truth, men corrupted in mind, disapproved concerning the faith;

9 B ut they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.

but they shall not advance any further, for their folly shall be manifest to all, as theirs also did become.

10 B ut you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

And thou -- thou hast followed after my teaching, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, endurance,

11 p ersecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

the persecutions, the afflictions, that befel me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of all the Lord did deliver me,

12 Y es, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

and all also who will to live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted,

13 B ut evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

and evil men and impostors shall advance to the worse, leading astray and being led astray.

14 B ut you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

And thou -- be remaining in the things which thou didst learn and wast entrusted with, having known from whom thou didst learn,

15 F rom infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise -- to salvation, through faith that in Christ Jesus;

16 E very Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

every Writing God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that in righteousness,

17 t hat the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

that the man of God may be fitted -- for every good work having been completed.