1 But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding a form of godliness but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also. 6 For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected. 9 But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.
10 But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness, 11 persecutions, and sufferings—those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all. 12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. 13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14 But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them. 15 From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, 17 that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
1 Maar weet dit, dat daar in die laaste dae swaar tye sal kom.
2 Want die mense sal liefhebbers van hulleself wees, geldgieriges, grootpraters, trotsaards, lasteraars, ongehoorsaam aan hulle ouers, ondankbaar, onheilig,
3 sonder natuurlike liefde, onversoenlik, kwaadsprekers, bandeloos, wreed, sonder liefde vir die goeie,
4 verraaiers, roekeloos, verwaand, meer liefhebbers van genot as liefhebbers van God;
5 mense wat 'n gedaante van godsaligheid het, maar die krag daarvan verloën het. Keer jou ook van hierdie mense af.
6 Want uit hulle is die wat in die huise insluip en arme vroue gevange neem wat met sondes belaai is en deur allerhande begeerlikhede gedryf word,
7 wat altyd leer en nooit tot die kennis van die waarheid kan kom nie.
8 En net soos Jannes en Jambres Moses teëgestaan het, so staan ook hierdie mense die waarheid teë, mense verdorwe in die verstand, onbetroubaar ten opsigte van die geloof.
9 Maar hulle sal nie verder voortgaan nie, want hulle dwaasheid sal vir almal duidelik wees, soos ook die van daardie manne geword het.
10 Maar jy het my navolger geword in leer, lewenswandel, planne, geloof, lankmoedigheid, liefde, lydsaamheid,
11 vervolginge, lyding, soos my te beurt geval het in Antioch¡ë, in Ikonium, in Listre. Watter vervolginge het ek nie al verdra nie! En die Here het my uit almal verlos.
12 En almal wat ook godvrugtig wil lewe in Christus Jesus, sal vervolg word.
13 Maar goddelose mense en bedrieërs sal voortgaan van kwaad tot erger, hulle wat verlei en verlei word.
14 Maar bly jy in wat jy geleer het en waarvan jy verseker is, omdat jy weet van wie jy dit geleer het,
15 en dat jy van kleins af die heilige Skrifte ken wat jou wys kan maak tot saligheid deur die geloof in Christus Jesus.
16 Die hele Skrif is deur God ingegee en is nuttig tot lering, tot weerlegging, tot teregwysing, tot onderwysing in die geregtigheid,
17 sodat die mens van God volkome kan wees, vir elke goeie werk volkome toegerus.