2 Timothy 2:22-4:3

English Standard Version

²² So ^(A)flee ^(B)youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with ^(C)those who call on the Lord ^(D)from a pure heart. ²³ Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant ^(E)controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. ²⁴ And ^(F)the Lord's servant^[a] must not be quarrelsome but ^(G)kind to everyone, ^(H)able to teach, patiently enduring evil, ²⁵ correcting his opponents ^(I)with gentleness. God ^(J)may perhaps grant them repentance ^(K)leading to a knowledge of the truth, ²⁶ and they may come to their senses and escape from ^(L)the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.

Godlessness in the Last Days

3 But understand this, that ^(M)in the last days there will come times of difficulty. ² For people will be ^(N)lovers of self, ^(O)lovers of money, ^(P)proud, ^(Q)arrogant, abusive, ^(R)disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, ^3 (S)heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, ^(T)not loving good, ⁴ treacherous, reckless, ^(U)swollen with conceit, ^(V)lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, ⁵ having the appearance of godliness, but ^(W)denying its power. ^(X)Avoid such people. ⁶ For among them are ^(Y)those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, ⁷ always learning and never able to ^(Z)arrive at a knowledge of the truth. ⁸ Just as ^(AA)Jannes and Jambres ^(AB)opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, ^(AC)men corrupted in mind and ^(AD)disqualified regarding the faith. ⁹ But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, ^(AE)as was that of those two men.

All Scripture Is Breathed Out by God

^10 (AF)You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, ¹¹ my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me ^(AG)at Antioch, ^(AH)at Iconium, and ^(AI)at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet ^(AJ)from them all ^(AK)the Lord rescued me. ¹² Indeed, all who desire to ^(AL)live a godly life in Christ Jesus ^(AM)will be persecuted, ¹³ while ^(AN)evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and ^(AO)being deceived. ¹⁴ But as for you, ^(AP)continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom^[b] you learned it ¹⁵ and how ^(AQ)from childhood you have been acquainted with ^(AR)the sacred writings, ^(AS)which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. ^16 (AT)All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, ¹⁷ that ^(AU)the man of God^[c] may be complete, ^(AV)equipped ^(AW)for every good work.

Preach the Word

4 ^(AX)I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, ^(AY)who is to judge the living and the dead, and by ^(AZ)his appearing and his kingdom: ² preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; ^(BA)reprove, rebuke, and ^(BB)exhort, with complete patience and teaching. ^3 (BC)For the time is coming when people will not endure ^(BD)sound^[d] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,