| New International Version | King James Bible |
| 1But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. | 1This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. |
| 2People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, | 2For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, |
| 3without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, | 3Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, |
| 4treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God-- | 4Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; |
| 5having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people. | 5Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. |
| 6They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, | 6For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, |
| 7always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. | 7Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. |
| 8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. | 8Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. |
| 9But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone. | 9But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was. |
| 10You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, | 10But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, |
| 11persecutions, sufferings--what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. | 11Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me. |
| 12In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, | 12Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. |
| 13while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. | 13But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. |
| 14But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, | 14But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; |
| 15and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. | 15And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. |
| 16All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, | 16All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: |
| 17so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. | 17That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. |
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