³ without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,

¹⁸ They said to you, “In the last times^(A) there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.”^(B)

³¹ they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love,^(A) no mercy.

²¹ “Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents^(A) and have them put to death.^(B)

¹⁴ With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce^(A) the unstable;^(B) they are experts in greed^(C)—an accursed brood!^(D)

¹¹ In the same way, the women^[a] are to be worthy of respect, not malicious talkers^(A) but temperate^(B) and trustworthy in everything.

Jesus Is Tested in the Wilderness^(A)

4 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted^[a](B) by the devil.^(C)

²³ “In the latter part of their reign, when rebels have become completely wicked, a fierce-looking king, a master of intrigue, will arise.

⁶ I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of God’s holy people,^(A) the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus.

When I saw her, I was greatly astonished.