MODERN LITERAL VERSION

3:1 But know this, that in the last days grievous times will be present.
3:2 For* men will be lovers of themselves, money-lovers, boasters, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3:3 cold-hearted, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, untamed, not lovers of good,
3:4 betrayers, rash, puffed up, loving sensual-delight rather than loving God;
3:5 holding to a form of godliness*, but having denied its power. Now turn away from these people.
3:6 For* out of these people are those who are sneaking into houses and capturing immature women, who are piled up with sins, led away by various lusts,
3:7 always learning and never able to come to the full knowledge of the truth.
3:8 Now in the manner that Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses so also, are these withstanding the truth. Men who are utterly corrupt in mind, unapproved concerning the faith.
3:9 But they will progress no more-than this. For* their mindlessness will be obvious to all men, as that of those men also became.

3:10 But you have followed closely my teaching, lead, purpose, faith, patience, love*, endurance,
3:11 persecutions and sufferings, such-as happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, and in Lystra. I underwent many persecutions such-as these, and the Lord rescued me out of all of them.
3:12 But even all who wish to live devoutly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
3:13 But wicked men and impostors will progress from bad to worse, misleading and being misled.
3:14 But you, abide in the things which you have learned and were entrusted with, having known from whom you have learned them.
3:15 And you have known, that from a baby, the sacred Scriptures which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

3:16 All Scripture is God breathed and is profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for education which is in righteousness,
3:17 in order that the man of God may be complete, utterly equipped *for every good work.