The Daily Audio Bible

Flee Youthful Desires. Pursue Righteousness, Faith, Love And Peace

²² And be fleeing the youthful desires, and be pursuing righteousness, faith, love, peace, with the ones calling-upon the Lord from a pure heart.

Decline Foolish Controversies. Be Kind, Skillful At Teaching, Gentle At Correcting

²³ And be declining the foolish and ignorant controversies, knowing that they breed battles. ²⁴ And a slave of the Lord must not battle, but must be kind to everyone, skillful-at-teaching, forbearing^[a], ²⁵ correcting the ones opposing with gentleness, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading-to the knowledge of the truth ²⁶ and they may return-to-their-senses from the snare of the devil, having been caught^[b] by him, for the will of that one^[c].

Know That Difficult Times Will Come, And Turn Away From The Ungodly

3 But know this— that during the last days difficult^[d] times will be present. ² For the people will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, proud, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³ unaffectionate, unreconcilable^[e], slanderous, without-self-control, untamed^[f], not-lovers-of-good, ⁴ traitors, reckless, having become conceited, pleasure-lovers rather than God-lovers, ⁵ holding a form of godliness but having denied the power of it. Indeed, be turning-away-from these ones.

For They Deceive The Ignorant And Oppose The Truth

⁶ For from these are the ones creeping into the houses and taking-captive little-women^[g]— women having been heaped with sins, being led by various desires, ⁷ always learning and never being able to come to the knowledge of the truth. ⁸ And the way Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, in this manner these also oppose the truth— people having been corrupted as to the mind, disapproved with respect to the faith. ⁹ But they will not advance further, for their folly will be very-evident to everyone, as also the folly of those two came-to-be^[h].

Continue In The Teaching And Lifestyle You Have Seen In Me And Learned From The Scriptures

¹⁰ Now you closely-followed my teaching, way-of-life, purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, ¹¹ persecutions, sufferings— such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra. Such persecutions I endured! And the Lord delivered me out of them all! ¹² And indeed all the ones wanting to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. ¹³ And evil people and impostors will advance to the worse, deceiving and being deceived. ¹⁴ But you, be continuing in the things which you learned and were convinced-of, knowing from whom^[i] you learned, ¹⁵ and that from babyhood you have known the sacred writings being able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus!

All Scripture Is God-Breathed, And Profitable For Equipping Us For Good Works

¹⁶ All^[j] Scripture is God-breathed^[k], and profitable for teaching, for rebuking^[l], for correcting^[m], for training^[n] in righteousness, ¹⁷ in order that the person of God may be complete^[o], having been equipped for every good work.