UST 2TIM Chapter 3

3 But you need to realize that the final time period before the Messiah returns will be very dangerous for believers. 2 This is because people will love themselves more than anyone else. They will love money. They will boast about themselves. They will be proud. They will insult others. They will not obey their parents. They will not thank anyone for anything. They will not honor God. 3 They will not love others. They will refuse to be at peace with anyone. They will slander others. They will not control themselves. They will be brutal toward others. They will hate anything that is good. 4 They will betray the ones they should protect. They will do dangerous things without thinking. They will be proud. They will do what pleases them instead of loving God. 5 They will maintain the outward appearance of being religious, but they will refuse to allow God to actually do his powerful work within them. Stay away from such people. 6 Some of them deceive people into allowing them into their homes, where they begin to control what the foolish women think. These are women who sin continually, and who just do whatever they feel like doing. 7 Even though these women are always wanting to learn new things, they are never able to recognize what is actually true. 8 In the same way that Jannes and Jambres, Pharoah’s magicians, tried to stop Pharoah from believing what Moses was telling him, so do these men also try to stop people from believing the true message about Jesus. These men are ruined in how they think. They are not fit to be teachers because they only pretend to believe in Jesus. 9 So although they have been able to teach wrong things to some people, they will not continue to succeed, because most others will clearly perceive that these men understand nothing. This will happen to them in the same way that it happened to Jannes and Jambres, when the people realized that they were foolish.

10 But as for you, you know very well what I teach and that is what you teach. You know and imitate my way of living and how I do everything to serve God. You have trusted God as I have. You have seen that I have peace even when I am suffering. You have seen that I love God and the believers. You have seen that I keep on serving God even when it is very hard to do so. 11 You have seen people persecute me. You saw what I suffered when I was in the cities of Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. You saw how I endured the ways that people persecuted me in those places, but the Lord enabled me to survive all of those situations. 12 It is true that people will make all believers suffer who want to live in a way that honors God through their relationship with the Messiah Jesus. 13 Evil people who pretend to be believers will continue to become more and more evil. They will cause people to believe things that are not true, as they themselves believe more and more things that are not true. 14 But you, in contrast, must continue to believe what you have learned and firmly believe. You can trust that these things are true, because you know that the people who taught you these things are trustworthy. 15 You also know that these things are true because you have known what God says in the Scriptures from the time when you were a child. The Scriptures enable you to understand how God saves us when we trust in the Messiah Jesus. 16 All the Scriptures come from God’s Spirit. They are useful for teaching people the truth about God. They also help people to know when they are wrong and help them to understand what is correct, and they are useful for training people how to do what is right. 17 In these ways, the Scriptures enable believers who serve God to be fully prepared and to have everything that they need to do every kind of good deed.

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