But understand this, that in the last
days there will come times of difficulty. For people
will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud,
arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents,
ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable,
slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving
good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit,
lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having
the appearance of godliness, but denying its power.
Avoid such people. For among them are those who creep
into households and capture weak women, burdened with
sins and led astray by various passions, always
learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the
truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so
these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind
and disqualified regarding the faith. But they will not
get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as
was that of those two men.
