{"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/wnt/2-timothy/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-26T22:52:50.537Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WNT","book":"2 Timothy","bookSlug":"2-timothy","chapter":3,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":2,"nextChapter":4,"totalChapters":4,"totalVerses":17},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"But of this be assured: in  the last days grievous times will set in."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, profane. They will be disobedient to parents, thankless, irreligious,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"destitute of natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers. They will have no self-control, but will be brutal, opposed  to goodness,"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"treacherous, headstrong, self-important. They will love pleasure instead of loving God,"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"and will keep up a make-believe of piety and yet live in defiance of its power. Turn away from people of this sort."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"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,"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"and are always learning something new, and yet are never able to arrive at real knowledge of the truth."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"But you have  intimately known my teaching, life, aims, faith, patience, love, resignation,"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"And indeed every one who is determined to live a godly life  as a follower of Christ Jesus will be persecuted."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"But bad men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, misleading and being misled."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"But you must cling to the things which you have learnt and have been taught to believe, knowing who your teachers were,"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"and that from infancy you have known the sacred writings which are able to  make you wise to obtain salvation through faith in Christ Jesus."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Every  Scripture  is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for convincing, for correction of error, and for instruction in right doing;"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"so that the man of God may himself be complete and may be perfectly equipped for every good work."}],"citation":{"inline":"2 Timothy 3 (WNT)","markdown":"[2 Timothy 3](https://primebible.com/wnt/2-timothy/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WNT. https://primebible.com/wnt/2-timothy/3 (accessed 2026-05-26)."}}