They will have no self-control, but will be brutal,
opposed to goodness,
003:004 treacherous, headstrong, self-important. They will love pleasure
instead of loving God,
003:005 and will keep up a make-believe of piety and yet live in defiance
of its power. Turn away from people of this sort.
003:006 Among them are included the men who make their way into
private houses and carry off weak women as their prisoners--
women who, weighed down by the burden of their sins, are led
by ever-changing caprice,
003:007 and are always learning something new, and yet are never able
to arrive at real knowledge of the truth.
003:008 And just as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also these
false teachers withstand the truth--being, as they are,
men of debased intellects, and of no real worth so far
as faith is concerned.
003:009 But they will have no further success; for their folly will
be as clearly manifest to all men, as that of the opponents
of Moses came to be.
003:010 But you have intimately known my teaching, life, aims, faith,
patience, love, resignation,
003:011 and the persecutions and sufferings which I have endured;
the things which happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra.
You know the persecutions I endured, and how the Lord delivered
me out of them all.
003:012 And indeed every one who is determined to live a godly life
as a follower of Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
003:013 But bad men and impostors will go on from bad to worse,
misleading and being misled.
003:014 But you must cling to the things which you have learnt and have