How people will be at the end of this age
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📚Understand this also: In the last days✭ perilous times will come. 2 📚✭For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 📚without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, lacking self-control, fierce, opposers of the good, 4 📚traitors, reckless, arrogant, lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, 5 📚having a form of godliness✭ but denying its power. Keep away from such people✭.6 📚✭These are the sort who worm their way into households and take over silly women who are loaded down with sins and led away with various cravings, 7 📚✭always learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 📚✭Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so these also resist the truth, these men of corrupt minds✭, rejected in regard to the faith. 9 📚✭But they will proceed no further, for their folly will be made clear to everyone, just as theirs was.
Timothy exhorted to follow the example of Paul
10 📚✭But you have fully known my teaching, manner of life, purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, 11 📚persecutions and hardships which came to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra. What persecutions I endured! But the Lord delivered me out of them all. 12 📚Yes, and all who want to live godly lives in Christ✭ Jesus will suffer persecution. 13 📚✭But evil men and hypocrites will go on getting worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14 📚✭But you must continue in the things you have learned and have been assured, knowing from whom you learned them,
The divine inspiration and use of the Bible
15 📚and that from childhood✭ you have known the Holy Scriptures that are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ✭ Jesus. 16 📚✭All✭ Scripture is given by inspiration of God✭, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 📚✭that the man of God may be perfectly prepared and thoroughly equipped for every good work✭.