2 Timothy 3

Difficult Times Ahead

1 But know this: Hard times will come in the last days.  * 3:1 Jn 6:39; Php 1:6; 1Pt 1:5; 2Pt 3:3; Jd 182 For people will be lovers of self,  * 3:2 Php 2:21; 1Tm 6:4 lovers of money,  * 3:2 Lk 16:14; 1Tm 3:3; 6:10 boastful, proud,  * 3:2 Pr 16:18; Lk 1:51; Rm 1:30 demeaning, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,  * 3:2 1Tm 1:93 unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers,  * 3:3 Jn 14:6 without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,  * 3:3 Ti 1:84 traitors,  * 3:4 Lk 6:16; Ac 7:52 reckless,  * 3:4 Ac 19:36 conceited,  * 3:4 1Tm 3:6; 6:4 lovers of pleasure  * 3:4 Php 3:19 rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to the form of godliness but denying its power.  * 3:5 1Co 4:20; 2Co 13:4; Ti 1:16 Avoid these people.  * 3:5 Mt 7:15; 2Th 3:6