Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Know That Difficult Times Will Come, And Turn Away From The Ungodly

3 But know this— that during the last days difficult^[a] times will be present. ² For the people will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, proud, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³ unaffectionate, unreconcilable^[b], slanderous, without-self-control, untamed^[c], not-lovers-of-good, ⁴ traitors, reckless, having become conceited, pleasure-lovers rather than God-lovers, ⁵ holding a form of godliness but having denied the power of it. Indeed, be turning-away-from these ones.

For They Deceive The Ignorant And Oppose The Truth

⁶ For from these are the ones creeping into the houses and taking-captive little-women^[d]— women having been heaped with sins, being led by various desires, ⁷ always learning and never being able to come to the knowledge of the truth. ⁸ And the way Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, in this manner these also oppose the truth— people having been corrupted as to the mind, disapproved with respect to the faith. ⁹ But they will not advance further, for their folly will be very-evident to everyone, as also the folly of those two came-to-be^[e].