2 Timothy 3 - New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Difficult Times Will Come

3 But realize this, that (A)in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For people will be (B)lovers of self, (C)lovers of money, (D)boastful, (E)arrogant, (F)slanderers, (G)disobedient to parents, (H)ungrateful, (I)unholy, 3 (J)unloving, irreconcilable, (K)malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, [a](L)haters of good, 4 (M)treacherous, (N)reckless, (O)conceited, (P)lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of [b](Q)godliness although they have (R)denied its power; (S)avoid such people as these. 6 For among them are those who [c](T)slip into households and captivate [d](U)weak women weighed down with sins, led on by (V)various impulses, 7 always learning and never able to (W)come to the [e]knowledge of the truth. 8 Just as (X)Jannes and Jambres (Y)opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, (Z)men of depraved mind, [f]worthless in regard to the faith. 9 But they will not make further progress; for their (AA)foolishness will be obvious to all, just (AB)as was that also of [g]Jannes and Jambres.

10 Now you (AC)followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, (AD)love, [h]perseverance, 11 (AE)persecutions, and (AF)sufferings, such as happened to me at (AG)Antioch, at (AH)Iconium, and at (AI)Lystra; what (AJ)persecutions I endured, and out of them all (AK)the Lord rescued me! 12 Indeed, all who want to live in a godly way in Christ Jesus (AL)will be persecuted. 13 But evil people and impostors (AM)will proceed from bad to worse, (AN)deceiving and being deceived. 14 You, however, (AO)continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them, 15 and that (AP)from childhood you have known (AQ)the sacred writings which are able to (AR)give you the wisdom that leads to (AS)salvation through faith which is in (AT)Christ Jesus. 16 (AU)All Scripture is [i]inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for [j]rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness; 17 so that (AV)the man or woman of God may be [k]fully capable, (AW)equipped for every good work.

Footnotes

  1. 2 Timothy 3:3 Lit not loving good
  2. 2 Timothy 3:5 Or religion
  3. 2 Timothy 3:6 Or creep into
  4. 2 Timothy 3:6 Or idle
  5. 2 Timothy 3:7 Or recognition
  6. 2 Timothy 3:8 Or unfit
  7. 2 Timothy 3:9 Lit those
  8. 2 Timothy 3:10 Or steadfastness
  9. 2 Timothy 3:16 Lit God-breathed
  10. 2 Timothy 3:16 Or reprimand
  11. 2 Timothy 3:17 Or proficient

Cross references

  1. 2 Timothy 3:1 : 1 Tim 4:1
  2. 2 Timothy 3:2 : Phil 2:21
  3. 2 Timothy 3:2 : Luke 16:14; 1 Tim 3:3; 6:10
  4. 2 Timothy 3:2 : Rom 1:30
  5. 2 Timothy 3:2 : Rom 1:30
  6. 2 Timothy 3:2 : 2 Pet 2:10-12
  7. 2 Timothy 3:2 : Rom 1:30
  8. 2 Timothy 3:2 : Luke 6:35
  9. 2 Timothy 3:2 : 1 Tim 1:9
  10. 2 Timothy 3:3 : Rom 1:31
  11. 2 Timothy 3:3 : 1 Tim 3:11
  12. 2 Timothy 3:3 : Titus 1:8
  13. 2 Timothy 3:4 : Acts 7:52
  14. 2 Timothy 3:4 : Acts 19:36
  15. 2 Timothy 3:4 : 1 Tim 3:6
  16. 2 Timothy 3:4 : Phil 3:19
  17. 2 Timothy 3:5 : 1 Tim 4:7
  18. 2 Timothy 3:5 : 1 Tim 5:8
  19. 2 Timothy 3:5 : Matt 7:15; 2 Thess 3:6
  20. 2 Timothy 3:6 : Jude 4
  21. 2 Timothy 3:6 : 1 Tim 5:6; Titus 3:3
  22. 2 Timothy 3:6 : Titus 3:3
  23. 2 Timothy 3:7 : 2 Tim 2:25
  24. 2 Timothy 3:8 : Ex 7:11
  25. 2 Timothy 3:8 : Acts 13:8
  26. 2 Timothy 3:8 : 1 Tim 6:5
  27. 2 Timothy 3:9 : Luke 6:11
  28. 2 Timothy 3:9 : Ex 7:11, 12; 8:18; 9:11
  29. 2 Timothy 3:10 : Phil 2:20, 22; 1 Tim 4:6
  30. 2 Timothy 3:10 : 1 Tim 6:11
  31. 2 Timothy 3:11 : 2 Cor 12:10
  32. 2 Timothy 3:11 : 2 Cor 1:5, 7
  33. 2 Timothy 3:11 : Acts 13:14, 45, 50
  34. 2 Timothy 3:11 : Acts 14:1-7, 19
  35. 2 Timothy 3:11 : Acts 14:8-20
  36. 2 Timothy 3:11 : 2 Cor 11:23-27
  37. 2 Timothy 3:11 : Rom 15:31
  38. 2 Timothy 3:12 : John 15:20; Acts 14:22; 2 Cor 4:9f
  39. 2 Timothy 3:13 : 2 Tim 2:16
  40. 2 Timothy 3:13 : Titus 3:3
  41. 2 Timothy 3:14 : 2 Tim 1:13; Titus 1:9
  42. 2 Timothy 3:15 : 2 Tim 1:5
  43. 2 Timothy 3:15 : John 5:47; Rom 2:27
  44. 2 Timothy 3:15 : Ps 119:98f
  45. 2 Timothy 3:15 : 1 Cor 1:21
  46. 2 Timothy 3:15 : 2 Tim 1:1
  47. 2 Timothy 3:16 : Rom 4:23f; 15:4; 2 Pet 1:20f
  48. 2 Timothy 3:17 : 1 Tim 6:11
  49. 2 Timothy 3:17 : 2 Tim 2:21; Heb 13:21

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