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You must understand this, that in the last days distressing times will come.
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For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
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inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, brutes, haters of good,
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treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
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holding to the outward form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid them!
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For among them are those who make their way into households and captivate silly women, overwhelmed by their sins and swayed by all kinds of desires,
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who are always being instructed and can never arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
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As Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these people, of corrupt mind and counterfeit faith, also oppose the truth.
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But they will not make much progress, because, as in the case of those two men, their folly will become plain to everyone.