Bible Gateway passage: 2 Timothy 3 - New International Version (2024)

3But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.^{(A) 2}People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,^(B) boastful, proud,^(C) abusive,^(D) disobedient to their parents,^(E) ungrateful, unholy, ³without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, ⁴treacherous,^(F) rash, conceited,^(G) lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— ⁵having a form of godliness^(H) but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.^(I)

⁶They are the kind who worm their way^(J) into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, ⁷always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.^{(K) 8}Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses,^(L) so also these teachers oppose^(M) the truth. They are men of depraved minds,^(N) who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. ⁹But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men,^(O) their folly will be clear to everyone.

A Final Charge to Timothy

¹⁰You, however, know all about my teaching,^(P) my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, ¹¹persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch,^(Q) Iconium^(R) and Lystra,^(S) the persecutions I endured.^(T) Yet the Lord rescued^(U) me from all of them.^{(V) 12}In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,^{(W) 13}while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse,^(X) deceiving and being deceived.^{(Y) 14}But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it,^{(Z) 15}and how from infancy^(AA) you have known the Holy Scriptures,^(AB) which are able to make you wise^(AC) for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶All Scripture is God-breathed^(AD) and is useful for teaching,^(AE) rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,^{(AF) 17}so that the servant of God^[a](AG) may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.^(AH)

Footnotes

1. 2 Timothy 3:17 Or that you, a man of God,

Cross references

1. 2 Timothy 3:1 : 1Ti 4:1; 2Pe 3:3
2. 2 Timothy 3:2 : S 1Ti 3:3
3. 2 Timothy 3:2 : Ro 1:30
4. 2 Timothy 3:2 : 2Pe 2:10-12
5. 2 Timothy 3:2 : Ro 1:30
6. 2 Timothy 3:4 : Ps 25:3
7. 2 Timothy 3:4 : 1Ti 3:6; 6:4
8. 2 Timothy 3:5 : S 1Ti 2:2
9. 2 Timothy 3:5 : S Ro 16:17
10. 2 Timothy 3:6 : Jude 4
11. 2 Timothy 3:7 : S 1Ti 2:4
12. 2 Timothy 3:8 : Ex 7:11
13. 2 Timothy 3:8 : Ac 13:8
14. 2 Timothy 3:8 : 1Ti 6:5
15. 2 Timothy 3:9 : Ex 7:12; 8:18; 9:11
16. 2 Timothy 3:10 : 1Ti 4:6
17. 2 Timothy 3:11 : Ac 13:14, 50
18. 2 Timothy 3:11 : S Ac 13:51
19. 2 Timothy 3:11 : Ac 14:6
20. 2 Timothy 3:11 : 2Co 11:23-27
21. 2 Timothy 3:11 : S Ro 15:31
22. 2 Timothy 3:11 : Ps 34:19
23. 2 Timothy 3:12 : Jn 15:20; S Ac 14:22
24. 2 Timothy 3:13 : 2Ti 2:16
25. 2 Timothy 3:13 : S Mk 13:5
26. 2 Timothy 3:14 : 2Ti 1:13
27. 2 Timothy 3:15 : 2Ti 1:5
28. 2 Timothy 3:15 : Jn 5:39
29. 2 Timothy 3:15 : Dt 4:6; Ps 119:98, 99
30. 2 Timothy 3:16 : 2Pe 1:20, 21
31. 2 Timothy 3:16 : S Ro 4:23, 24
32. 2 Timothy 3:16 : Dt 29:29
33. 2 Timothy 3:17 : 1Ti 6:11
34. 2 Timothy 3:17 : 2Ti 2:21