1 But know this: Hard times will come in the last days.  *2 For people will be lovers of self,  * lovers of money,  * boastful, proud,  * demeaning, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,  *3 unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers,  * without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,  *4 traitors,  * reckless,  * conceited,  * lovers of pleasure  * rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to the form of godliness but denying its power.  * Avoid these people.  *