1This, also, know, that in latter days perilous times will come. 2For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, proud, defamers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3without natural affection, bargain-breakers, slanderers, incontinent, fierce, haters of good men, 4headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God; 5having a form of godliness, but denying the power of it. Now, from these, turn away. 6Of these, indeed, are they who go into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts; 7always learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8Now, in the manner that Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men wholly corrupted in mind, reprobate as to the faith. 9However, they shall not proceed further; for their foolishness shall be very plain to all, as theirs also was. 10But you have fully known my teaching, manner of life, purpose, faith, meekness, love, patience, 11persecutions, sufferings, such as befell me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra: such persecutions I endured; but out of them all the Lord delivered me. 12And all, indeed, who will live godly in Christ Jesus, shall be persecuted: 13but wicked men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 14In the meantime, do you continue in the things which you have learned, and with which you have been entrusted, knowing from whom you have learned them; 15and that, from a child, you have known the sacred scriptures, which are able to make you wise to salvation, by the faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16All scripture, given by divine inspiration, is indeed profitable for doctrine, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17that the man of God may be perfect-completely fitted for every good work.