2 Timothy
3:1-9 (NIV) But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will
be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3
without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited,
lovers of pleasure rather
than lovers of God--5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do
with them. 6 They are the kind
who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are
loaded down with sins and are
swayed by all kinds of evil desires, 7 always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres
opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth--men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. 9 But they
will not get very far because,
as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.