All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness;

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress.

and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, knowing from whom you learned it,

For among them are those who make their way into households and capture weak women, weighed down with sins and swayed by various impulses,

always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Indeed all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.

But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.

You, however, know all about my teaching, my conduct, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance,

persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, yet the Lord rescued me from them all.

unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,

holding a form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid such people.

while evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.