3 But this know, that in [the] last days difficult times shall be there;

² for men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, evil speakers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, profane,

³ without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good,

⁴ traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

⁵ having a form of piety but denying the power of it: and from these turn away.

¹³ But wicked men and juggling impostors shall advance in evil, leading and being led astray.