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But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:
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For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
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unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,
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traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
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having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!
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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,
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always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
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Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith;
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but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.
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But you have carefully followed my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, perseverance,
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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.
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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 must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them,
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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.
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All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
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that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
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