003:002 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money,
boastful, haughty, profane. They will be disobedient
to parents, thankless, irreligious,
003:003 destitute of natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers.
They will have no self-control, but will be brutal,
opposed to goodness,
003:004 treacherous, headstrong, self-important. They will love pleasure
instead of loving God,
003:005 and will keep up a make-believe of piety and yet live in defiance
of its power. Turn away from people of this sort.
003:006 Among them are included the men who make their way into private houses and carry off weak women as their prisoners— women who, weighed down by the burden of their sins, are led by ever-changing caprice,
003:007 and are always learning something new, and yet are never able to arrive at real knowledge of the truth.
003:008 And just as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also these false teachers withstand the truth—being, as they are, men of debased intellects, and of no real worth so far as faith is concerned.
003:009 But they will have no further success; for their folly will be as clearly manifest to all men, as that of the opponents of Moses came to be.
003:010 But you have intimately known my teaching, life, aims, faith, patience, love, resignation,
003:011 and the persecutions and sufferings which I have endured; the things which happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra. You know the persecutions I endured, and how the Lord delivered me out of them all.