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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>2 Timothy 3 ISV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_timothy/3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_timothy/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ISV</a> > 2 Timothy 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_timothy/2.htm" title="2 Timothy 2">◄</a> 2 Timothy 3 <a href="../2_timothy/4.htm" title="2 Timothy 4">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/2_timothy/3.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">What People will be Like in the Last Days</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>You must realize, however, that in the last days difficult times will come. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>unfeeling, uncooperative, slanderous, degenerate, brutal, hateful of what is good, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>traitors, reckless, conceited, and lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They will hold to an outward form of godliness but deny its power. Stay away from such people. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For some of these men go into homes and deceive foolish women who are burdened with sins and swayed by all kinds of desires. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>These women are always studying but are never able to arrive at a full knowledge of the truth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and their faith is a counterfeit. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those two men,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3:9 The Gk. lacks two men">a</a></span> their stupidity will be plain to everyone.</p> <p class="heading">Continue to Teach the Truth</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But you have observed my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and how I was persecuted and suffered in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in union with the Messiah<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3:12 Or Christ">b</a></span> Jesus will be persecuted. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But evil people and impostors will go from bad to worse as they deceive others and are themselves deceived.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But as for you, continue in what you have learned and found to be true, because you know from whom you learned it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures that are able to give you the wisdom you need for salvation through faith in the Messiah<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3:15 Or Christ">c</a></span> Jesus. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>All Scripture is God-breathed<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="3:16 Or inspired by God">d</a></span> and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>so that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good action.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 3:9 The Gk. lacks <i>two men</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 3:12 Or <i>Christ</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 3:15 Or <i>Christ</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 3:16 Or <i>inspired by God</i><br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../2_timothy/2.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Timothy 2"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Timothy 2" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_timothy/4.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Timothy 4"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Timothy 4" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/2_timothy/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>