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2 Timothy 3

Paul forecasts the last days with a long, unsparing list: people who are lovers of self and money, boastful, without natural affection, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, keeping a form of godliness while denying its power. He tells Timothy plainly to turn away from such people. Against that backdrop he points back to his own example and the Scriptures Timothy has known since infancy. The chapter sharpens into the well-known claim that every Scripture is God-breathed and useful.

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2 Timothy 3 (WEB)

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But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come.
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For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
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without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,
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traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
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holding a form of godliness but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
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For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
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always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
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Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected.
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But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.
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But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,
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persecutions, and sufferings—those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.
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Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
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But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
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But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.
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From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
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Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
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that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

2 Timoteo 3 (RV1909)

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ESTO también sepas, que en los postreros días vendrán tiempos peligrosos:
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Que habrá hombres amadores de sí mismos, avaros, vanagloriosos, soberbios, detractores, desobedientes á los padres, ingratos, sin santidad,
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Sin afecto, desleales, calumniadores, destemplados, crueles, aborrecedores de lo bueno,
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Traidores, arrebatados, hinchados, amadores de los deleites más que de Dios;
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Teniendo apariencia de piedad, mas habiendo negado la eficacia de ella: y á éstos evita.
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Porque de éstos son los que se entran por las casas, y llevan cautivas las mujercillas cargadas de pecados, llevadas de diversas concupiscencias;
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Que siempre aprenden, y nunca pueden acabar de llegar al conocimiento de la verdad.
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Y de la manera que Jannes y Jambres resistieron á Moisés, así también éstos resisten á la verdad; hombres corruptos de entendimiento, réprobos acerca de la fe.
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Mas no prevalecerán; porque su insensatez será manifiesta á todos, como también lo fué la de aquéllos.
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Pero tú has comprendido mi doctrina, instrucción, intento, fe, largura de ánimo, caridad, paciencia,
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Persecuciones, aflicciones, cuales me sobrevinieron en Antioquía, en Iconio, en Listra, cuales persecuciones he sufrido; y de todas me ha librado el Señor.
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Y también todos los que quieren vivir píamente en Cristo Jesús, padecerán persecución.
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Mas los malos hombres y los engañadores, irán de mal en peor, engañando y siendo engañados.
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Empero persiste tú en lo que has aprendido y te persuadiste, sabiendo de quién has aprendido;
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Y que desde la niñez has sabido las Sagradas Escrituras, las cuales te pueden hacer sabio para la salud por la fe que es en Cristo Jesús.
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Toda Escritura es inspirada divinamente y útil para enseñar, para redargüir, para corregir, para instituir en justicia,
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Para que el hombre de Dios sea perfecto, enteramente instruído para toda buena obra.

Jannes and Jambres

Verse 8 reaches outside the canon, naming Jannes and Jambres as men who opposed Moses. The Old Testament never names Pharaoh's magicians; Paul draws on a Jewish tradition his readers would recognize to label the deceivers of the last days.

The comparison frames the chapter's contrast: impostors grow worse and worse, while Timothy is to remain in what he learned, knowing the people he learned it from. Persecution at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra is named as the cost.