2 Timothy 3 - Easy To Read Version

¹ Remember this! There will be many troubles in the last days.

² In those times people will love only themselves and money. They will be boastful and proud. They will say bad things against other people. They will not obey their parents. They will not be thankful. They will not be the kind of people God wants.

³ People in those times will not have love for other people. They will refuse to forgive and will talk about other people to hurt them. People will not control themselves. They will be angry and mean and will hate things that are good.

⁴ In the last days people will turn against their friends. They will do foolish things without thinking. They will be conceited and proud. People will love pleasure—they will not love God.

⁵ Those people will continue to act like they serve God. But the way they live shows that they don’t really serve God. Timothy, stay away from those people.

⁶ Some of those people go into homes and get women who are weak. Those women are full of sin. Those women are led to sin by the many evil things they want to do.

⁷ Those women always try to learn \{new teachings\}, but they are never able to fully understand the truth.

⁸ Remember Jannes and Jambres. {\cf2\super [17]} They were against Moses. {\cf2\super [18]} It is the same with these people. They are against the truth. They are people whose thinking has been confused. They have failed in trying to follow the faith.

⁹ But they will not be successful in the things they do. All the people will see that they are foolish. That is what happened to Jannes and Jambres.

¹⁰ But you know all about me. You know what I teach and the way I live. You know my goal in life. You know my faith, my patience, and my love. You know that I never stop trying.

¹¹ You know about my persecutions (troubles) and my sufferings. You know all the things that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. You know the persecutions I suffered in those places. But the Lord saved me from all those troubles.

¹² Every person who wants to live the way God wants, in Christ Jesus, will be persecuted.

¹³ People who are evil and cheat other people will become worse and worse. They will fool other people, but they will also be fooling themselves.