2 Timoteo 3
La impiedad en los últimos días
1 Ahora bien, ten en cuenta que en los últimos días vendrán tiempos difíciles. 2 La gente estará llena de egoísmo y avaricia; serán jactanciosos, arrogantes, *blasfemos, desobedientes a los padres, ingratos, impíos, 3 insensibles, implacables, calumniadores, libertinos, despiadados, enemigos de todo lo bueno, 4 traicioneros, impetuosos, vanidosos y más amigos del placer que de Dios. 5 Aparentarán ser piadosos, pero su conducta desmentirá el poder de la piedad. ¡Con esa gente ni te metas!
6 Así son los que van de casa en casa cautivando a mujeres débiles cargadas de pecados, que se dejan llevar de toda clase de pasiones. 7 Ellas siempre están aprendiendo, pero nunca logran conocer la verdad. 8 Del mismo modo que Janes y Jambres se opusieron a Moisés, también esa gente se opone a la verdad. Son personas de mente depravada, reprobadas en la fe. 9 Pero no llegarán muy lejos, porque todo el mundo se dará cuenta de su insensatez, como pasó con aquellos dos.
Encargo de Pablo a Timoteo
10 Tú, en cambio, has seguido paso a paso mis enseñanzas, mi manera de vivir, mi propósito, mi fe, mi paciencia, mi amor, mi constancia, 11 mis persecuciones y mis sufrimientos. Estás enterado de lo que sufrí en Antioquía, Iconio y Listra, y de las persecuciones que soporté. Y de todas ellas me libró el Señor. 12 Así mismo serán perseguidos todos los que quieran llevar una vida piadosa en Cristo Jesús, 13 mientras que esos malvados embaucadores irán de mal en peor, engañando y siendo engañados. 14 Pero tú, permanece firme en lo que has aprendido y de lo cual estás convencido, pues sabes de quiénes lo aprendiste. 15 Desde tu niñez conoces las Sagradas Escrituras, que pueden darte la sabiduría necesaria para la salvación mediante la fe en Cristo Jesús. 16 Toda la Escritura es inspirada por Dios y útil para enseñar, para reprender, para corregir y para instruir en la justicia, 17 a fin de que el siervo de Dios esté enteramente capacitado para toda buena obra.
2 TIMOTHY 3
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 t Just as Jannes and Jambrest 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 t 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.