1 But know this: In the last days there will be difficult times. 2 For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, and unholy. 3 They will be without natural affection, unable to reconcile, slanderers, without self-control, violent, not lovers of good. 4 They will be betrayers, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. 5 They will have a shape of godliness, but they will deny its power. Turn away from these people. 6 For some of them are men who enter into households and captivate foolish women. These are women who are heaped up with sins and are led away by various desires. 7 These women are always learning, but they are never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 In the same way that Jannes and Jambres stood against Moses, these false teachers also stand against the truth. They are men corrupt in mind, and with regard to the faith they are proven to be false. 9 But they will not advance very far. For their foolishness will be obvious to all, just like that of those men. 10 But as for you, you have followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience, 11 persecutions, sufferings, and what happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra. I endured persecutions. Out of them all, the Lord rescued me. 12 All those who want to live in a godly manner in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. 13 Evil people and impostors will go from bad to worse, leading others and themselves astray. 14 But as for you, remain in the things that you have learned and have firmly believed. You know from whom you have learned. 15 You know that from childhood you have known the sacred writings. These are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All scripture has been inspired by God. It is profitable for doctrine, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness. 17 This is so that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
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Jambres
Named in 2 Timothy as one of two men who opposed Moses, as the false teachers oppose the truth; they are traditionally Pharaoh's magicians.
Cited in the guide: 2 Timothy 3:8
Jannes
Named in 2 Timothy as one of two men who opposed Moses, as the false teachers oppose the truth; they are traditionally Pharaoh's magicians.
Cited in the guide: 2 Timothy 3:8
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- 1 2 Peter 3:3; 2 Timothy 4:3; 1 Timothy 4:1–3; 1 John 2:18; 2 Thessalonians 2:3–12
- 2 Philippians 2:21; Romans 1:29–31; Jude 16; Psalm 10:3; 2 Timothy 3:4
- 3 Jude 18; Romans 1:31; Matthew 10:21; 2 Peter 2:14; 1 Timothy 3:11
- 4 Philippians 3:18–19; 1 Timothy 3:6; Jude 4; 2 Peter 2:10–22; Jude 8–9
- 5 Isaiah 29:13; Titus 1:16; Matthew 23:27–28; 1 Timothy 5:8; Romans 2:20–24
- 6 Jude 4; Titus 3:3; 2 Peter 3:17; Jude 18; Titus 1:11
- 7 2 Timothy 4:3–4; Ephesians 4:14; 1 Timothy 2:4; Proverbs 14:6; John 5:44
- 8 Acts 13:8–11; Exodus 7:11; Revelation 2:20; 1 Timothy 6:5; Revelation 2:14–15
- 9 2 Timothy 3:8; Exodus 7:12; Jeremiah 28:15–17; Exodus 9:11; Psalm 76:10
- 10 1 Timothy 6:11; Titus 2:7; 2 Peter 1:5–7; 1 Timothy 4:6; Philippians 2:22
- 11 Psalm 34:19; Acts 14:5–6; 2 Corinthians 11:23–28; Acts 13:45; Acts 14:19–21
- 12 1 Peter 3:14; 1 Peter 4:12–16; 1 Peter 2:20–21; Acts 14:22; Matthew 16:24
- 13 1 Timothy 4:1; Titus 3:3; 2 Timothy 3:8; 2 Peter 2:20; 2 Thessalonians 2:6–11
- 14 1 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Timothy 2:2; 2 Timothy 1:13; 1 Thessalonians 1:5; Hebrews 10:22
- 15 Psalm 119:98–99; Luke 24:45; Proverbs 22:6; 2 Peter 1:20–21; Matthew 22:29
- 16 Romans 15:4; Hebrews 4:12; 2 Peter 1:19–21; Mark 12:24; Psalm 19:7–11
- 17 2 Timothy 2:21; 2 Corinthians 9:8; Ephesians 2:10; 1 Timothy 6:11; Hebrews 10:24
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He had said in the former Epistle, that "the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith" (1 Tim. iv.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 13 (1889)
For, being driven away from Him who truly is [God], and being turned backwards, he shall be for ever seeking, yet shall never find out God; but shall continually swim in an abyss without limits, unless, being converted by repentance, he return to the place from which he had been cast out, confessing one God, the Father, the Creator, and …
… a reply to every exception which you hear taken to what you read in it; for so you would become like those silly women of whom the apostle says that they are "always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." Chapter 2 — Recapitulation of the Contents of the First Book In the foregoing book, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
All Scripture, then, is given by inspiration of God and is also assuredly profitable.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)
… inharmoniously, and foolishly, not keeping always to the same opinions with regard to the same things, as blind men are led by the blind, they shall deservedly fall into the ditch of ignorance lying in their path, ever seeking and never finding out the truth. It behoves us, therefore, to avoid their doctrines, and to take careful heed lest we …