Thematic Bible

2 Timothy 3:1

But know this: Difficult times will come in the last days.

2 Timothy 3:2

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

2 Timothy 3:3

unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,

2 Timothy 3:4

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

2 Timothy 3:5

holding to the form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people!

2 Timothy 3:6

For among them are those who worm their way into households and capture idle women burdened down with sins, led along by a variety of passions,

2 Timothy 3:7

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

2 Timothy 3:8

Just as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so these also resist the truth, men who are corrupt in mind, worthless in regard to the faith.

2 Timothy 3:9

But they will not make further progress, for their lack of understanding will be clear to all, as theirs was also.

2 Timothy 3:10

But you have followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, and endurance,

2 Timothy 3:11

along with the persecutions and sufferings that came to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from them all.

2 Timothy 3:12

In fact, all those who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

2 Timothy 3:13

Evil people and impostors will become worse, deceiving and being deceived.

2 Timothy 3:14

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed. You know those who taught you,

2 Timothy 3:15

and you know that from childhood you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 3:16

All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness,

2 Timothy 3:17

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