¹ BUT this know, that in the last days distressing times will come. ² For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, vainglorious, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ³ unnatural, implacable, slanderers, intemperate, inhuman, averse to goodness, ⁴ treacherous, wilful, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God; ⁵ holding the form of godliness, but denying the power of it: from these men turn with aversion.

⁶ For such are they who insinuate themselves into houses, and captivate weak women laden with accumulated sins, and actuated by a variety of passions, ⁷ always learning, yet never able to attain unto the knowledge of truth. ⁸ But in the same manner as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also set themselves in opposition to the truth; men corrupt in mind, reprobate respecting the faith. ⁹ But they shall not proceed to the uttermost; for their infatuation shall be evident to all men, as theirs also was.