New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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1 You must face the fact: the final age of this world is to be a time
of troubles.
2 Men will love nothing but money and self; they will
be arrogant, boastful, and abusive; with no respect for parents, no
gratitude, no piety, no natural affection;
3 they will be implacable
in their hatreds, scandal-mongers, intemperate and fierce, strangers
to all goodness,
4 traitors, adventurers, swollen with self-importance.
5 They will be men who put pleasure in the place of God, men who
preserve the outward form of religion, but are a standing denial
of its reality.
6 Keep clear of men like these. They are the sort that
insinuate themselves into private houses and there get miserable
women into their clutches, women burdened with a sinful past, and
led on by all kinds of desires,
7 who are always wanting to be taught,
but are incapable of reaching a knowledge of the truth.
8 As Jannes
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Character of a Christian minister
and Jambres defied Moses, so these men defy the truth; they have
lost the power to reason, and they cannot pass the tests of faith.
9 But their successes will be short-lived, for, like those opponents of
Moses, they will come to be recognized by everyone for the fools
they are.
10 But you, my son, have followed, step by step, my teaching and
my manner of life, my resolution, my faith, patience, and spirit of
love,
11 and my fortitude under persecutions and sufferings—all that
I went through at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra, all the persecutions
I endured; and the Lord rescued me out of them all.
12 Yes, persecution
will come to all who want to live a godly life as Christians,
13 whereas
wicked men and charlatans will make progress from bad to worse,
deceiving and deceived.
14 But for your part, stand by the truths you
have learned and are assured of. Remember from whom you learned
them;
15 remember that from early childhood you have been familiar
with the sacred writings which have power to make you wise and
lead you to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
16 Every inspired
scripture has its use for teaching the truth and refuting error, or for
reformation of manners and discipline in right living,
17 so that the man
who belongs to God may be efficient and equipped for good work of
every kind.
New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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