PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, according to the promise of life, which is in Christ Jesus,

if we are patient, we shall also reign with him; if we deny him, he will also deny us;

But shun profane and vain babblings; for they will make further advance to ungodliness,

and their word will eat as a gangrene: of whom are Hyrnenaeus and Philetus,

If, therefore, any one will cleanse him self from these strifes about words, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, highly useful to the master, prepared for every good work.

and that they may awake to sobriety out of the snare of the devil, after having been taken captive by him according to his will.

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

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, revilers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so these also will withstand the truth; men corrupt in mind, rejected as it respects the faith.

And all that will live godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution.

But evil men and impostors will become worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

I charge you, therefore, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom,

For the time will come when they will not endure sound teaching, but according to their own desires they will pro cure for themselves an abundance of teachers to gratify their itching ears:

and they will turn away their ears from the truth, and be turned to fables.

henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me at that day; and not to me only, but to all those who love his appearing.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and bring me safe to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory from age to age. Amen.