2. Timotheus 3
- 1But this know, that in [ergänzt: the] last days difficult times shall be there;
- 2for men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, evil speakers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, profane,
- 3without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good,
- 4traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
- 5having a form of piety but denying the power of it: and from these turn away.
- 6For of these are they who are getting into houses, and leading captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts,
- 7always learning, and never able to come to [ergänzt: the] knowledge of [ergänzt: the] truth.
- 8Now in the same manner in which Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, thus these also withstand the truth; men corrupted in mind, found worthless as regards the faith.
- 9But they shall not advance farther; for their folly shall be completely manifest to all, as that of those also became.
- 10But *thou* hast been thoroughly acquainted with my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, endurance,
- 11persecutions, sufferings: what [ergänzt: sufferings] happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what persecutions I endured; and the Lord delivered me out of all.
- 12And all indeed who desire to live piously in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
- 13But wicked men and juggling impostors shall advance in evil, leading and being led astray.
- 14But *thou*, abide in those things which thou hast learned, and [ergänzt: of which] thou hast been fully persuaded, knowing of whom thou hast learned [ergänzt: them];
- 15and that from a child thou hast known the sacred letters, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith which [ergänzt: is] in Christ Jesus.
- 16Every scripture [ergänzt: is] divinely inspired, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness;
- 17that the man of God may be complete, fully fitted to every good work.
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