| 1 | But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. | 2Ti 4:3 Gn 49:1 Isa 2:2 Jer 48:47 Jer 49:39 Ezk 38:16 Dn 10:14 Hos 3:5 Mic 4:1 1Ti 4:1 2Pe 3:3 1Jn 2:18 Jud 1:17 |
| 2 | For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, | 2Ti 3:4 Ro 15:1-3 2Co 5:15 Php 2:21 Jm 2:8 |
| 3 | without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, | Mt 10:21 Ro 1:31 |
| 4 | traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; | 2Pe 2:10-22 Jud 1:8 Jud 1:9 |
| 5 | holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof. Turn away from these, also. | Isa 29:13 Isa 48:1 Isa 48:2 Isa 58:1-3 Ezk 33:30-32 Mt 7:15 Mt 23:27 Mt 23:28 Ro 2:20-24 1Ti 5:8 Tit 1:16 |
| 6 | For of these are those who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, | Mt 23:14 Tit 1:11 Jud 1:4 |
| 7 | always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. | 2Ti 4:3 2Ti 4:4 Dt 29:4 Pr 14:6 Isa 30:10 Isa 30:11 Ezk 14:4-10 Mt 13:11 Jn 3:20 Jn 3:21 Jn 5:44 Jn 12:42 Jn 12:43 1Co 3:1-4 Eph 4:14 Heb 5:11 |
| 8 | Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith. | Ex 7:11 Ex 7:22 Ex 8:7 Ex 8:18 |
| 9 | But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be. | 2Ti 3:8 Ex 7:12 Ex 8:18 Ex 8:19 Ex 9:11 1Ki 22:25 Ps 76:10 Jer 28:15-17 Jer 29:21-23 Jer 29:31-23 Jer 29:32-23 Jer 37:19 Ac 13:11 Ac 19:15-17 |
| 10 | But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness, | Lk 1:3 Php 2:22 1Ti 4:6 |
| 11 | persecutions, and sufferings; those things that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; those persecutions that I endured. Out of them all the Lord delivered me. | Ac 9:16 Ac 20:19 Ac 20:23 Ac 20:24 Ro 8:35-37 1Co 4:9-11 2Co 1:8-10 2Co 4:8-11 2Co 11:23-28 Heb 10:33-34 |
| 12 | Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. | 2Co 1:12 1Ti 2:2 1Ti 3:16 1Ti 6:3 Tit 1:1 Tit 2:12 2Pe 3:11 |
| 13 | But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. | 2Ti 3:8 2Ti 2:16 2Ti 2:17 2Th 2:6-10 1Ti 4:1 2Pe 2:20 2Pe 3:3 Rev 12:9 Rev 13:14 Rev 18:23 |
| 14 | But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them. | 2Ti 1:13 2Ti 2:2 1Ti 4:16 |
| 15 | From infancy, you have known the sacred writings which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus. | 2Ti 1:5 1Sa 2:18 2Ch 34:3 Ps 71:17 Pr 8:17 Pr 22:6 Ec 12:1 Lk 1:15 Lk 2:40 |
| 16 | Every scripture inspired by God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness, | 2Sa 23:2 Mt 21:42 Mt 22:31 Mt 22:32 Mt 22:43 Mt 26:54 Mt 26:56 Mk 12:24 Mk 12:36 Jn 10:35 Ac 1:16 Ac 28:25 Ro 3:2 Ro 15:4 Ga 3:8 Heb 3:7 Heb 4:12 2Pe 1:19-21 |
| 17 | that the man of God may be complete, furnished completely to every good work. | Ps 119:98-100 1Ti 6:11 |
