Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Opponents of the truth

3 You need to know this: bad times are coming in the last days. ² People will be in love with themselves, you see, and with money too. They will be boastful, arrogant, abusive, haters of parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³ unfeeling, implacable, accusing, dissolute, savage, haters of the good, ⁴ traitors, reckless, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, ⁵ holding on to a pattern of godliness but denying its power. Avoid people like that! ⁶ This group, you see, includes those who worm their way into people’s houses and ensnare foolish women who are overwhelmed with their sins and are pulled and pushed by all kinds of desires, ⁷ always learning but never able to arrive at the truth. ⁸ Just as Jannes and Jambres stood up against Moses, so people like this oppose the truth. In their minds they are corrupt; in their faith they are of no account. ⁹ They won’t get very far, though, because their foolishness will become obvious to everyone, as it was with those two.