53 lines
2.0 KiB
Markdown
53 lines
2.0 KiB
Markdown
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## Difficult Times Will Come
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###### 1
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But know this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
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###### 2
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For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
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unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, without gentleness, without love for good,
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treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
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holding to a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Keep away from such men as these.
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For among them are those who enter into households and take captive weak women weighed down with sins, being led on by various desires,
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###### 7
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always learning and never able to come to the full knowledge of the truth.
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###### 8
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Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these _men_ also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, disqualified in regard to the faith.
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But they will not make further progress, for their folly will be obvious to all, just as theirs was also.
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###### 10
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But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance,
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persecutions, _and_ sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, _and_ at Lystra. What persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me!
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###### 12
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Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
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###### 13
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But evil men and impostors will proceed _from bad_ to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
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###### 14
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But you, continue in the things you learned and became convinced of, knowing from whom you learned _them_,
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###### 15
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and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
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All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness,
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###### 17
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so that the man of God may be equipped, having been thoroughly equipped for every good work.
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