Little children, it is the last time. And just as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have risen up, from which we know that it is the last hour.

because they told you that at the last time there will be mockers according to their lusts, leading ungodly lives.

Scoffers

How long will you love simplicity, simple ones? And will scorners delight in their scorning? And will fools hate knowledge?

Surely He scorns the scorners; but He gives grace to the lowly.

A scorner seeks wisdom, and it is not found, but knowledge is easy to him who understands.

who say, Let Him hurry and hasten His work, so that we may see it; and let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, so that we may know!

Therefore hear the Word of Jehovah, scornful men who rule this people in Jerusalem.

For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scorner is destroyed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off;

In the day of our king, the rulers have sickened themselves with the heat of wine. He stretches out his hand with scorners.

Walking

and especially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise dominion. They are darers, self-pleasing; not trembling at glories, speaking evil.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the Word of God, but by the revelation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

These are murmurers, complainers, leading lives according to their lusts. And their mouth speaks proud things, admiring faces for the sake of gain.

General references

If you are wise, you shall be wise for yourself; but if you scorn, you alone shall bear it.

A true witness delivers souls, but a deceitful witness speaks lies.

Behold, they say to me, Where is the Word of Jehovah? Let it come now!

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