What People Will Be Like in the Last Days
1 You can be certain that in the last days there will be some very hard times. 2 People will love only themselves and money. They will be proud, stuck-up, rude, and disobedient to their parents. They will also be ungrateful, godless, 3 heartless, and hateful. Their words will be cruel, and they will have no self-control or pity. These people will hate everything good. 4 They will be sneaky, reckless, and puffed up with pride. Instead of loving God, they will love pleasure. 5 Even though they will make a show of being religious, their religion won't be real. Don't have anything to do with such people.
6 Some men fool whole families, just to get power over those women who are slaves of sin and are controlled by all sorts of desires. 7 These women always want to learn something new, but they never can discover the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, these people are enemies of the truth. Their minds are sick, and their faith isn't real. 9 But they won't get very far with their foolishness. Soon everyone will know the truth about them, just as Jannes and Jambres were found out.
Paul's Last Instructions to Timothy
10 Timothy, you know what I teach and how I live. You know what I want to do and what I believe. You have seen how patient and loving I am, and how in the past I put up with 11 trouble and suffering in the cities of Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. Yet the Lord rescued me from all those terrible troubles. 12 In fact, anyone who belongs to Christ Jesus and wants to live right will have trouble from others. 13 But evil people who pretend to be what they are not will become worse than ever, as they fool others and are fooled themselves.
14 Keep on being faithful to what you were taught and to what you believed. After all, you know who taught you these things. 15 Since childhood, you have known the Holy Scriptures that are able to make you wise enough to have faith in Christ Jesus and be saved. 16 Everything in the Scriptures is God's Word. All of it is useful for teaching and helping people and for correcting them and showing them how to live. 17 The Scriptures train God's servants to do all kinds of good deeds.
V. 1-9: cf. (2 Pi 2:1-22. Jud 3, etc. Tit 1:10-16.)
1 Sache que, dans les derniers jours, il y aura des temps difficiles. 2 Car les hommes seront égoïstes, amis de l’argent, fanfarons, hautains, blasphémateurs, rebelles à leurs parents, ingrats, irréligieux, 3 insensibles, déloyaux, calomniateurs, intempérants, cruels, ennemis des gens de bien, 4 traîtres, emportés, enflés d’orgueil, aimant le plaisir plus que Dieu, 5 ayant l’apparence de la piété, mais reniant ce qui en fait la force. Éloigne-toi de ces hommes-là. 6 Il en est parmi eux qui s’introduisent dans les maisons, et qui captivent des femmes d’un esprit faible et borné, chargées de péchés, agitées par des passions de toute espèce, 7 apprenant toujours et ne pouvant jamais arriver à la connaissance de la vérité. 8 De même que Jannès et Jambrès s’opposèrent à Moïse, de même ces hommes s’opposent à la vérité, étant corrompus d’entendement, réprouvés en ce qui concerne la foi. 9 Mais ils ne feront pas de plus grands progrès; car leur folie sera manifeste pour tous, comme le fut celle de ces deux hommes.
V. 10-17: cf. 2 Co 6:3-10. (Ac 13:50; 14:1-22.) 2 Ti 1:13. 2 Pi 1:19-21.10 Pour toi, tu as suivi de près mon enseignement, ma conduite, mes résolutions, ma foi, ma douceur, ma charité, ma constance, 11 mes persécutions, mes souffrances. A quelles souffrances n’ai-je pas été exposé à Antioche, à Icone, à Lystre? Quelles persécutions n’ai-je pas supportées? Et le Seigneur m’a délivré de toutes. 12 Or, tous ceux qui veulent vivre pieusement en Jésus-Christ seront persécutés. 13 Mais les hommes méchants et imposteurs avanceront toujours plus dans le mal, égarant les autres et égarés eux-mêmes. 14 Toi, demeure dans les choses que tu as apprises, et reconnues certaines, sachant de qui tu les as apprises; 15 dès ton enfance, tu connais les saintes lettres, qui peuvent te rendre sage à salut par la foi en Jésus-Christ. 16 Toute Écriture est inspirée de Dieu, et utile pour enseigner, pour convaincre, pour corriger, pour instruire dans la justice, 17 afin que l’homme de Dieu soit accompli et propre à toute bonne œuvre.
