2 Timothy 3:1
But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come.
2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good,
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come.
- KJV
- This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
- WEB
- But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come.
- ASV
- But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come.
- DARBY
- But this know, that in [the] last days difficult times shall be there;
- BLB
- But know this, that in the last days difficult times will be present.
- ÅB
- Men dette skal du vite at i de siste dager skal det komme vanskelige tider.
- OTB
- Men innse dette, at i de siste dager skal det komme vanskelige tider.
- B1930
- Men dette skal du vite at i de siste dager skal det komme vanskelige tider.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Peter 3:3
Most importantly, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.
Read in context2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.
Read in context1 Timothy 4:1–3
Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,
Read in context1 John 2:18
Children, it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour.
Read in context2 Thessalonians 2:3–12
Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of destruction—is revealed.
Read in contextJude 1:17
But you, beloved, remember what was foretold by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ
Read in contextMicah 4:1
In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and the peoples will stream to it.
Read in contextIsaiah 2:2
In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
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