1 Be aware that there will be troubled times in the last days. 2 People will love themselves and love money. They will be boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, and without God in their lives. 3 Heartless and unforgiving, they’ll commit slander and have no self-control. Brutal people who hate what’s good, 4 they will betray others and be totally thoughtless. They are absurdly full of themselves, living so much for pleasure that they don’t care about loving God. 5 They may give an outward impression of being religious, but they don’t actually believe it works. Stay away from these people!