| 3:1 | Perilous Times and Perilous MenDangerous Times Are Coming But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: |
| 3:2 | For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, |
| 3:3 | unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, |
| 3:4 | traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, |
| 3:5 | having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! |
| 3:6 | For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, |
| 3:7 | always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. |
| 3:8 | Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith; |
| 3:9 | but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.The Man of God and the Word of God |
| 3:10 | But you have carefully followed my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, perseverance, |
| 3:11 | persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra--what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me. |
| 3:12 | Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. |
| 3:13 | But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. |
| 3:14 | But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, |
| 3:15 | and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. |
| 3:16 | All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, |
| 3:17 | that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. |