Thematic Bible

2 Timothy 3:1

You must realize, however, that in the last days difficult times will come.

2 Timothy 3:2

People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

2 Timothy 3:3

unfeeling, uncooperative, slanderous, degenerate, brutal, hateful of what is good,

2 Timothy 3:4

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

2 Timothy 3:5

They will hold to an outward form of godliness but deny its power. Stay away from such people.

2 Timothy 3:6

For some of these men go into homes and deceive foolish women who are burdened with sins and swayed by all kinds of desires.

2 Timothy 3:7

These women are always studying but are never able to arrive at a full knowledge of the truth.

2 Timothy 3:8

Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and their faith is a counterfeit.

2 Timothy 3:9

But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those two men, their stupidity will be plain to everyone.

2 Timothy 3:10

But you have observed my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,

2 Timothy 3:11

and how I was persecuted and suffered in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

2 Timothy 3:12

Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in union with the Messiah Jesus will be persecuted.

2 Timothy 3:13

But evil people and impostors will go from bad to worse as they deceive others and are themselves deceived.

2 Timothy 3:14

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and found to be true, because you know from whom you learned it.

2 Timothy 3:15

From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures that are able to give you the wisdom you need for salvation through faith in the Messiah Jesus.

2 Timothy 3:16

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

2 Timothy 3:17

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