03:02 .. for men will be lovers of self .. lovers of money .. boastful .. arrogant .. revilers .. disobedient to parents .. ungrateful .. unholy 03:03 .. unloving .. irreconcilable .. malicious gossips .. without self-control .. brutal .. haters of good 03:04 .. treacherous .. reckless .. conceited .. lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God
03:05 .. holding to a form of godliness .. although they have denied its power .. avoid such men as these 03:06 .. for among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins .. led on by various impulses 03:07 .. always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth 03:08 .. just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses .. so these men also oppose the truth .. men of depraved mind .. rejected in regard to the faith 03:09 .. but they will not make further progress .. for their folly will be obvious to all .. just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also
03:10 .. now you followed my teaching .. conduct .. purpose .. faith .. patience .. love .. perseverance 03:11 .. persecutions .. and sufferings .. such as happened to me at Antioch .. at Iconium and at Lystra .. ......... what persecutions I endured .. and out of them all the Lord rescued me 03:12 .. Indeed .. all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted 03:13 .. but evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse .. deceiving and being deceived
03:14 .. you .. however .. continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of .. knowing from whom you have learned them 03:15 .. and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads ......... to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus 03:16 .. all scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching .. for reproof .. for correction .. for training in righteousness 03:17 .. so that the man of God may be adequate .. equipped for every good work
The last days of the Gospel dispensation will be perilous times .. both on account of persecutions without .. and corruptions within .. these will be times when it will be difficult to keep a good conscience .. and the believers recourse .. will be the inspired Word of God .. which is demonstrated to be the power of God unto salvation .. able to furnish him unto all good works . . . . (II Tim 3:5) the Gospel of Christ is the power of godliness (Rom 1:16) .. the tendency of the apostasy of the last times will be to accept the ethical teachings of Christ .. rejecting the doctrine of regeneration by the Spirit of Christ .. It is no marvel that those who cling to Christ .. instead of form .. will in those days .. be the object of bitter persecution (II Tim 3:12)