2 Timothy 3:1
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Chapter 3
The Dangers of the Last Days.[a] 1 But understand this: there will be terrifying times in the last days.(A)
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- 3:1–9 The moral depravity and false teaching that will be rampant in the last days are already at work (2 Tm 3:1–5). The frivolous and superficial, too, devoid of the true spirit of religion, will be easy victims of those who pervert them by falsifying the truth (2 Tm 3:6–8), just as Jannes and Jambres, Pharaoh’s magicians of Egypt (Ex 7:11–12, 22), discredited the truth in Moses’ time. Exodus does not name the magicians, but the two names are widely found in much later Jewish, Christian, and even pagan writings. Their origins are legendary.
2 Timothy 4:3
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3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine but, following their own desires and insatiable curiosity,[a] will accumulate teachers(A)
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- 4:3 Insatiable curiosity: literally, “with itching ears.”
2 Peter 3:3
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3 Know this first of all, that in the last days scoffers[a] will come [to] scoff, living according to their own desires(A)
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Jude 18
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18 for they told you,(A) “In [the] last time there will be scoffers who will live according to their own godless desires.”[a]
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- 18 This is the substance of much early Christian preaching rather than a direct quotation of any of the various New Testament passages on this theme (see Mk 13:22; Acts 20:30; 1 Tm 4:1–3; 2 Pt 3:3).
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