18 that they were saying to you, “(A)In the last time there will be mockers, (B)following after their own ungodly lusts.”

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18 They said to you, “In the last times(A) there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.”(B)

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18 for they told you,(A) “In [the] last time there will be scoffers who will live according to their own godless desires.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 18 This is the substance of much early Christian preaching rather than a direct quotation of any of the various New Testament passages on this theme (see Mk 13:22; Acts 20:30; 1 Tm 4:1–3; 2 Pt 3:3).