rs of the good, [3:4]traitors, rash, boasters, lovers of
pleasure more than lovers of God, [3:5]having a form of piety but
denying its power; and these avoid. [3:6]Of these are those who go into
the houses and take captive foolish women loaded with sins, and led by
various desires, [3:7]always learning and never able to come to a
knowledge of the truth. [3:8]As Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so
also these oppose the truth, men of no judgment, reprobate in respect
to the faith. [3:9]But they shall proceed no further; for their
foolishness shall become manifest to all, as theirs also was. [3:10]But
you have followed my instruction,--mode of life, purpose, faith,
long-suffering, love, patience, [3:11]persecutions, sufferings, which
befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; the great persecutions
which I suffered, and the Lord delivered me from all. [3:12]And all who
will live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted. [3:13]But evil
men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being
deceived. [3:14]But do you continue in what you learned and understood,
knowing from whom you learned, [3:15]and that from a child you have
known the sacred Scriptures, which can make you wise to salvation
through faith in Christ Jesus. [3:16]All Scripture is divinely inspired
and is profitable for instruction, for conviction, for correction, for
education in righteousness, [3:17]that the man of God may be perfect,
thoroughly fitted for every good work.

2 [4:1]I earnestly charge you before God and Christ Jesus who is about
to judge the living and dead, and [by] his appearing and his kingdom,
[4:2]preach the word, press it in season, out of season, reprove,
rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and instruction; [4:3]for the
time will come when they will not endure sound instruction, but will
accumulate for themselves teachers according to their desires, pleasing
their ear, [4:4]and they will turn away their ears from the truth, and
be turned to myths. [4:5]But do you be sober in all things, endure
evil, do the work of an evangelist, perform fully your ministry. [4:6]
For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.
[4:7]I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have
kept the faith; [4:8]henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of
righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge will give me in that
day, and not me only but all who love his appearing.

3 [4:9]Make haste to come