الأيام الأخيرة
1 واَعلَمْ أنّ أزمِنَةً صَعبَةً سَتَجيءُ في الأيّامِ الأخيرَةِ، 2 يكونُ النّاسُ فيها أنانيّينَ جَشِعينَ مُتَعجرِفينَ مُتكبّرينَ شتّامينَ، لا يُطيعونَ والديهِم، ناكِري الجَميلِ فاسِقينَ، 3 لا رأْفَةَ لهُم ولا عَهدَ، نَمّامينَ مُتَهوّرينَ شَرِسينَ أعداءَ الخَيرِ، 4 خائِنينَ وقِحينَ، أعمَتْهُمُ الكِبرياءُ، يُفَضّلونَ المَلذّاتِ على اللهِ، 5 مُتمَسّكينَ بِقُشورِ التّقوى رافِضينَ جَوهَرَها. فاَبتَعِدْ عَنْ هَؤُلاءِ النّاسِ. 6 ومِنهُم مَنْ يَتَسلّلونَ إلى البُيوتِ ويَغوونَ نِساءً ضَعيفاتٍ مُثقَلاتٍ بِالخطايا، مُنقاداتٍ لِكُلّ أنواعِ الشّهواتِ، 7 يتَعَلّمنَ دائِمًا ولا يُمكِنُهُنّ مَعرِفَةُ الحَقّ أبدًا. 8 وكما أنّ يَنّيسَ ويَمْبَريسَ قاوَما موسى، كذلِكَ هَؤُلاءِ أيضًا يُقاوِمونَ الحَقّ. هُم أُناسٌ عُقولُهُم فاسِدَةٌ لا يَصلُحونَ للإيمانِ، 9 ولكنّهُم لَنْ يَتَوصّلوا إلى شيءٍ لأنّ حماقَتَهُم ستَنكَشِفُ لِجميعِ النّاسِ كما اَنكشَفَتْ حَماقةُ يَنّيسَ ويَمْبَريسَ.
وصايا عامة
10 أمّا أنتَ فتَبِعتَني في تَعليمي وسيرَتي ومَقاصِدي وإيماني وصَبري ومحَبّتي وثَباتي 11 واَحتِمالي الاَضطِهادَ والعَذابَ وما أصابَني في أنطاكِيَةَ وأيقونِـيّةَ ولِسترَةَ. وكمْ مِنِ اَضطهادٍ عانَيتُ وأنقَذَني الرّبّ مِنها كُلّها. 12 فكُلّ مَنْ أرادَ أنْ يَحيا في المَسيحِ يَسوعَ حياةَ التّقوى أصابَهُ الاَضطِهادُ. 13 أمّا الأشرارُ والدّجّالونَ فيَزدادونَ شَرّا وهُم خادِعونَ مَخدوعونَ. 14 فاَثبُتْ أنتَ على ما تَعَلّمْتَهُ عِلمَ اليَقينِ عارِفًا عَمّن أخذتَهُ. 15 فأنتَ مُنذُ طُفولَتِكَ عَرَفْتَ الكُتُبَ المُقَدّسةَ القادِرَةَ على أنْ تُزَوّدَكَ بِالحِكمَةِ التي تَهدي إلى الخَلاصِ في الإيمانِ بِالمَسيحِ يَسوعَ. 16 فالكِتابُ كُــلّـهُ مِنْ وَحيِ اللهِ، يُفيدُ في التّعليمِ والتّفنيدِ والتّقويمِ والتّأديبِ في البِرّ، 17 ليكونَ رَجُلُ اللهِ كامِلاً مُستَعِدّا لِكلّ عَمَلٍ صالِـحٍ.
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.