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1But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come.Cross-references: Gen 49:1 · Isa 2:2 · Jer 48:47 · Jer 49:39 · Ezek 38:16 · Dan 7:8 · +15 more
2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,Cross-references: Ps 10:3 · Ps 49:6 · Ps 52:1 · Prov 6:17 · Isa 10:15 · Dan 7:25 · +34 more
3without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,Cross-references: Gen 49:7 · 2Sam 21:1 · Ps 15:4 · Ps 22:6 · Isa 53:3 · Isa 60:14 · +24 more
4traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,Cross-references: Rom 11:20 · Rom 16:18 · Phil 3:18 · 1Tim 3:6 · 1Tim 5:6 · 1Tim 6:17 · +4 more
5holding a form of godliness but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.Cross-references: Isa 29:13 · Isa 48:1 · Isa 58:1 · Ezek 33:30 · Matt 7:15 · Matt 23:27 · +12 more
6For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,Cross-references: Ps 38:4 · Isa 1:4 · Matt 11:28 · Matt 23:13 · Mark 4:19 · 1Cor 12:2 · +8 more
7always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.Cross-references: Deut 29:4 · Prov 14:6 · Isa 30:10 · Ezek 14:4 · Matt 13:11 · John 3:20 · +8 more
8Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected.Cross-references: Ex 7:11 · Ex 7:22 · Ex 8:7 · Ex 8:18 · 1Ki 22:22 · Jer 28:1 · +25 more
9But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.Cross-references: Ex 7:12 · Ex 8:18 · Ex 9:11 · 1Ki 22:25 · Ps 76:10 · Jer 28:15 · +6 more
10But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,Cross-references: Dan 1:8 · Luke 1:3 · Acts 2:42 · Acts 11:23 · Acts 20:18 · Acts 26:4 · +18 more
11persecutions, and sufferings—those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.Cross-references: Gen 48:16 · 2Sam 22:1 · 2Sam 22:49 · Job 5:19 · Ps 34:19 · Ps 37:40 · +32 more
12Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.Cross-references: Josh 17:14 · Ps 37:12 · Matt 5:10 · Matt 10:22 · Matt 16:24 · Matt 23:34 · +25 more
13But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.Cross-references: Job 12:16 · Isa 44:20 · Ezek 14:9 · 2Thess 2:6 · 1Tim 4:1 · 2Tim 2:16 · +7 more
14But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.Cross-references: Acts 17:31 · Rom 14:5 · Col 2:2 · 1Thess 1:5 · 1Thess 2:13 · 1Tim 4:16 · +5 more
15From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:18 · 2Chr 34:3 · Ps 19:7 · Ps 71:17 · Ps 119:98 · Prov 8:17 · +23 more
16Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,Cross-references: Deut 4:36 · 2Sam 23:2 · Neh 9:20 · Ps 19:7 · Ps 119:9 · Ps 119:11 · +35 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →
17that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.Cross-references: Neh 2:18 · Ps 119:98 · Acts 9:36 · 2Cor 9:8 · Eph 2:10 · 1Tim 6:11 · +4 more
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