| New American Standard Bible 1995 | New International Version |
| 1But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. | 1But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. |
| 2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, | 2People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, |
| 3unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, | 3without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, |
| 4treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, | 4treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God-- |
| 5holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. | 5having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people. |
| 6For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, | 6They are the kind who worm their way 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 and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. | 7always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. |
| 8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith. | 8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. |
| 9But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes's and Jambres's folly was also. | 9But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone. |
| 10Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance, | 10You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, |
| 11persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me! | 11persecutions, sufferings--what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. |
| 12Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. | 12In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, |
| 13But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. | 13while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. |
| 14You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them, | 14But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, |
| 15and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. | 15and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. |
| 16All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; | 16All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, |
| 17so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. | 17so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. |
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