1Know this also that in the last days perilous dangerous times will come. 2For men will be lovers of their own selves, covetous lovers of money, arrogant, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful ungrateful, unholy, 3unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, despisers of those who are good, 4traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5having a form of godliness, but denying its power. Stay away from people like this! 6Among them are those who creep into houses and lead captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away with various lusts. 7They are constantly learning, and never able to grasp the knowledge of the truth. 8And even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also withstand the truth. Men corrupted in mind, rejected concerning the faith, 9they will make no progress; for their foolishness will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be. 10You carefully follow my teaching in conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, and patience, 11and also persecutions and sufferings. The things that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured. Out of them the Lord delivered me. 12Yes, and all who would live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. 13But evil men and impostors will become worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14Continue in the things you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them. 15From childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to make you wise to salvation through faith that is in Christ Jesus. 16God inspired all Scripture! It is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness. Greek: theopneustos: God-breathed 17Thus the man of God may be completely equipped for every good work.