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2 TIMOTEO 3

Carácter de los hombres en los postreros días

1 También debes saber esto: que en los postreros días vendrán tiempos peligrosos. 2 Porque habrá hombres amadores de sí mismos, avaros, vanagloriosos, soberbios, blasfemos, desobedientes a los padres, ingratos, impíos, 3 sin afecto natural, implacables, calumniadores, intemperantes, crueles, aborrecedores de lo bueno, 4 traidores, impetuosos, infatuados, amadores de los deleites más que de Dios, 5 que tendrán apariencia de piedad, pero negarán la eficacia de ella; a éstos evita. 6 Porque de éstos son los que se meten en las casas y llevan cautivas a las mujercillas cargadas de pecados, arrastradas por diversas concupiscencias. 7 Éstas siempre están aprendiendo, y nunca pueden llegar al conocimiento de la verdad. 8 Y de la manera que Janes y Jambres resistieron a Moisés,t así también éstos resisten a la verdad; hombres corruptos de entendimiento, réprobos en cuanto a la fe.

9 Mas no irán más adelante; porque su insensatez será manifiesta a todos, como también lo fue la de aquéllos.
10 Pero tú has seguido mi doctrina, conducta, propósito, fe, longanimidad, amor, paciencia, 11 persecuciones, padecimientos, como los que me sobrevinieron en Antioquía,t en Iconio,t en Listra;t persecuciones que he sufrido, y de todas me ha librado el Señor. 12 Y también todos los que quieren vivir piadosamente en Cristo Jesús padecerán persecución; 13 mas los malos hombres y los engañadores irán de mal en peor, engañando y siendo engañados. 14 Pero persiste tú en lo que has aprendido y te persuadiste, sabiendo de quién has aprendido; 15 y que desde la niñez has sabido las Sagradas Escrituras, las cuales te pueden hacer sabio para la salvación por la fe que es en Cristo Jesús. 16 Toda la Escritura es inspirada por Dios, y útil para enseñar, para redargüir, para corregir, para instruir en justicia, 17 a fin de que el hombre de Dios sea perfecto, enteramente preparado 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.