2 Timothy 3:1

New International Reader's Version

Here is what I want you to know. There will be terrible times in the last days.

Cross References

Genesis 49:1

Then Jacob sent for his sons. He said, “Gather around me so I can tell you what will happen to you in days to come.

Isaiah 2:2

In the last days the mountain where the Lord’s temple is located will be famous. It will be the highest mountain of all. It will be raised above the hills. All the nations will go to it.

Jeremiah 48:47

“But in days to come I will bless Moab with great success again,” announces the Lord. This ends the report about how the Lord would judge Moab.

Jeremiah 49:39

“But in days to come I will bless Elam with great success again,” announces the Lord.

Ezekiel 38:16

They will advance against my people Israel. They will be like a cloud covering their land. Gog, in days to come I will bring you against my land. Then the nations will know me. I will use you to prove to them how holy I am.”

Daniel 10:14

Now I have come to explain the vision to you. I will tell you what will happen to your people. The vision shows what will take place in days to come.”

Daniel 11:36

“A certain king will do as he pleases. He will honor himself. He will put himself above every god. He will say things against the greatest God of all. Those things have never been heard before. He will have success until God is not angry anymore. What God has decided to do must take place.

Daniel 12:11

“The daily sacrifices will be stopped. And the hated thing that destroys will be set up. After that, there will be 1,290 days.

Daniel 12:7

The man raised both hands toward heaven. I heard him make a promise in the name of the God who lives forever. He answered me, “Three and a half years. Then the power of the holy people will finally be broken. And all these things will come true.”

Daniel 7:8

“I thought about the horns. Then I saw another horn. It was a little one. It grew up among the other horns. Three of the first horns were pulled up by their roots to make room for it. The little horn had eyes like the eyes of a human being. Its mouth was always bragging.

Hosea 3:5

After that, the people of Israel will return to the Lord their God. They will look to him and to a king from the family line of David. In the last days, they will tremble with fear as they come to the Lord. And they will receive his full blessing.

Micah 4:1

In the last days the mountain where the Lord’s temple is located will be famous. It will be the highest mountain of all. It will be lifted up above the hills. And nations will go to it.

2 Timothy 4:3

The time will come when people won’t put up with true teaching. Instead, they will try to satisfy their own desires. They will gather a large number of teachers around them. The teachers will say what the people want to hear.

2 Peter 3:3

Most of all, here is what you must understand. In the last days people will make fun of the truth. They will laugh at it. They will follow their own evil desires.

1 John 2:18

Dear children, we are living in the last days. You have heard that the great enemy of Christ is coming. But even now many enemies of Christ have already come. That’s how we know that these are the last days.

Jude 1:17

Dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ said would happen.

Jude 1:18

They told you, “In the last days, some people will make fun of the truth. They will follow their own ungodly desires.”