{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/2-timothy/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T23:18:55.636Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"2 Timothy","bookSlug":"2-timothy","chapter":3,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":2,"nextChapter":4,"totalChapters":4,"totalVerses":17},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith, are rejected."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. Out of them all the Lord delivered me."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work."}],"citation":{"inline":"2 Timothy 3 (WEB)","markdown":"[2 Timothy 3](https://primebible.com/web/2-timothy/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/2-timothy/3 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}