Paul says that at that
time, things will be dangerous because Òmen will be
lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant,
revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without
self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless,
conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of
God; holding to a form of godliness, although
they have denied its power.Ó (2 Timothy 3:1-7)