Children, it is the last hour, and just as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen, by which we know that it is the last hour.

for they said to you, "In the end time there will be scoffers following according to their own ungodly desires."

Scoffers

"{How long}, O simple ones, will you love simplicity? And [how long] will scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?

With those who scorn, he is scornful, but to those who are humble, he gives favor.

A scoffer seeks wisdom, but there is none, but knowledge {comes easily to him who understands}.

those who say, "Let him make haste; let him hurry his work so that we may see it and let it draw near and let the plan of the holy one of Israel come so that we may know [it]!"

Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, men of mockery, rulers of these people in Jerusalem:

For [the] tyrant shall be no more, and [the] scoffer shall come to an end. And all those lying in wait for evil shall be cut off;

[On] the day of our king, the princes became sick [with] the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.

Walking

and especially those who go after the flesh in defiling lust and who despise authority. Bold [and] arrogant, they do not tremble in awe [as they] blaspheme majestic beings,

but we have renounced shameful hidden things, not behaving with craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but with the open proclamation of the truth commending ourselves to every person's conscience before God.

These [people] are grumblers, discontented, proceeding according to their desires, and their mouths speaking pompous [words], {showing partiality to gain an advantage}.

General references

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself, and [if] you scoff, alone you shall bear [it].

He who saves lives [is] a witness of truth, but he who utters lies [is] a betrayer.

Look, they [are] saying to me, "Where [is] the word of Yahweh? Please let it come."

"Your ancestors, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?