Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life in Christ Jesus,

And what thou have heard from me through many witnesses, these things commit thou to faithful men who will be competent to teach others also.

Faithful is the saying, For if we die together, we will also live together.

If we endure, we will also reign together. If we renounce him, that man will also renounce us.

But shun profane babblings, for they will advance to greater impiety,

and their word will have a feeding field like gangrene, of whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

If therefore any man purges himself from these things, he will be a vessel for esteem, sanctified and useful to the master, prepared for every good work.

and they may sober up out of the snare of the devil, having been captured by him for his will.

But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, impious,

But they will not advance in much more, for their folly will be evident to all men, as also that of those men came to be.

And also all those who want to live devoutly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

But evil men and impostors will go forward to worse, leading astray and being led astray.

For there will be time when they will not tolerate sound doctrine, but they will accumulate teachers to themselves according to their own desires, who tickle the ear,

and will indeed turn the ear away from the truth, and will be turned aside to myths.

Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me in that day, and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

And the Lord will rescue me from every evil work, and will save me for his heavenly kingdom, to whom is the glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.